This is a great book if you are interested in social justice, or human rights. It is very basic and scratches the surface, but for a basic understanding and "eye opening" pick it up. Change...IT all starts with us...
Excerpt from Uprooting Racism Book Review by Denise Wegener
Marian Wright Edelman first female African American lawyer and founder of The Children’s Defense Fund once said,
If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.
Edelman’s words echo Paul Kivel’s message in Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice. Kivel’s book breathes new life into a much debated subject; racism and how we, as a predominately white society, should deal with the complexities that face us as members of a unique country. Kivel makes it known that though we have no control over the past and racism’s hold on our history; we do have control over the future. Additionally, Kivel’s scope of discussion is not limited to a specific group of people of color and includes Native Americans, Latino/as, Asian Americans, Jewish, African Americans and at times he discusses virtually every ethnic group that has inhabited the United States of America.
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