From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and woman in middle-class white America.

Austin Channing Brown’s first encounter with a racialized America came at age group 7, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man. Growing up in majority-white academic institutions, agencies, and churches, Austin writes, ‘I acquired to learn what it means to love blackness,’ a trip that led to a about I’m Still Right here: Dark Dignity in a global Made for Whiteness life time spent navigating America’s racial separate as a article writer, speaker and expert who helps institutions practice genuine inclusion.

In a period when nearly all institutions (schools, churches, universities, businesses) claim to value ‘diversity’ in their mission statements, I’m Still Here is a powerful account of how and just why our actions so often flunk of our terms. Austin writes in breathtaking detail about her journey to self-worth as well as the pitfalls that kill our tries at racial justice, in stories that bear see to the intricacy of America’s public fabric–from Dark Cleveland neighborhoods to private colleges in the middle-class suburbs, from prison walls towards the boardrooms at majority-white agencies.

For readers who have engaged with America’s legacy on race through the writing of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michael Eric Dyson, I’m Even now Here’s an illuminating take a look at how white, middle-class, Evangelicalism has participated in an era of growing racial hostility, inviting the reader to confront apathy, recognize God’s ongoing work in the world, and find out how blackness–if we let it–can save people.