Steps You Can Take to be Anti-Racist

The Racial Healing Handbook offers practical tools to help individuals navigate daily and past experiences of racism, challenge internalized negative messages and privileges, and handle feelings of stress and shame. It guides readers in developing a profound racial consciousness and conscientiousness, healing from grief and trauma, and creating a community of healing in a world filled with racial microaggressions and discrimination.

In this ground-breaking book, Katy Milkman reveals a proven path to help readers move from where they are to where they want to be. Drawing on her original research and the work of her world-renowned scientific collaborators, Milkman shares strategic methods for identifying and overcoming common barriers to change, such as impulsivity, procrastination, and forgetfulness. The book offers innovative approaches like 'temptation bundling,' using timely reminders, and creating 'set-it-and-forget-it systems' to make change more achievable. It emphasizes the importance of tailoring solutions to specific roadblocks and using science to stack the deck in favor of successful change.

In 'Race-Baiter', Eric Deggans examines how modern media fuels fears, prejudices, and hate by segmenting audiences and playing on deep-rooted fears. He argues that this divisive strategy is used by both conservative and liberal media outlets to secure audience share and political power. The book explores the evolution of the term 'race-baiter' and its implications in contemporary media discourse.