In Becoming Trustworthy White Allies, longtime antiracist facilitator Melanie S. Morrison outlines the actions white people must undertake to become partners in the work of racial justice. In this collection of essays, lectures, and real-life stories, Morrison addresses how white people can navigate the obstacles to becoming an ally so that they can step up with courage, humility, and consistency to participate in BIPOC-led organizations while helping move other white people to greater antiracist awareness and action. Morrison describes the required steps toward allyship: moving through shame and guilt, nurturing truth-telling relationships of support and accountability, challenging practices and policies that protect white privilege, moving out of social segregation, working from a place of self-love, and staying on the antiracist journey. Now, as always, it is imperative that white people commit to doing the deep work and learning required to become lifelong trustworthy allies.
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword: Jennifer Harvey
- Introduction
- I. Inner Work
- 1. Becoming Trustworthy White Allies
- 2. Memories of the 1963 March on Washington
- 3. Qualities and Commitments of White Allies
- 4. A Misguided Struggle
- 5. Why an Antiracism Seminar for White People
- 6. This Is What Accountable Relationships Look Like / Dionardo Pizaña and Melanie S. Morrison
- 7. Dear White People
- II. Ancestral Investigations
- 8. Cultural Envy
- 9. Genealogy as Spiritual Practice: Reflections on My White Ancestral Work
- 10. Why We Must Remember: A King Descendant’s Reckoning with Her Enslaving Ancestors
- 11. A Just Reckoning: Forging Deeper, Truer King House Narratives
- 12. Letter to My Great-Great-Great-Grandmother, Elizabeth King Shortridge
- III. Legacies of Lynching
- 13. Soul Splitting
- 14. Researching Injustice: Telling the Story of Legal Lynching in Jim Crow Birmingham
- 15. Trayvon Martin, the Legacy of Lynching, and the Role of White Women
- 16. At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Verdict in the Michael Brelo Case
- 17. “The Fierce Urgency of Now"
- IV. Staying Power
- 18. What Will It Take for White People to Stay the Course?
- 19. In the Time That I Have Left
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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