Reviews

The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing, by Anneliese A. Singh

goldenfoxy's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

4.0

frenandjen's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

rebecanunez's review against another edition

4.0

** Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with the digital copy of this book in exchange for my honest review **
Como alguien que ha tenido problemas para aceptar sus orígenes, y que ha visto lo que hace el racismo, me encanto este libro. Recomiendo ademas tenerlo en papel, donde puedan tomar apuntes, etc y tal vez les sea mas practico para realizar las cosas que propone el libro. Ademas, al que ya tiene y al que no, nos permite alcanzar una perspectiva y conciencia correctas sobre el racismo, que es real, y que esta en todas las sociedades, porque en todas las sociedades, y mas en este mundo globalizado, hay personas diferentes al promedio, de otros países y otras razas. Recomiendo su lectura para las personas de todos lados. Aguardo ansiosa que este disponible en español para que se incremente su alcance.

snigdhadeva's review against another edition

4.0

I learnt so much from this book. It's so informative in the simplest way possible. It gave me so much vocabulary to be able to unlearn and relearn. It also gave me more comfort wrt to the emotions I tend to feel and strategies to overcome them as per my capacity at that time. Def a book I will make a point to revisit every year. Just to see how much work I'm putting in myself

cssquared's review against another edition

5.0

I received The Racial Healing Handbook by Anneliese A. Singh from NetGalley in exchange for my review. This book is an amazing workbook. There are few books I feel could benefit the world in such an amazing way as Singh does with The Racial Healing Handbook. This work is hard to do, but straight forward, and there is no piece that feels unnecessary. This book is the right length and exercises are reasonable. This puts the reader into the perfect discomfort to learn. I encourage this book for anyone wanting to get to know themselves better or wanting to make the world better.

john_opalenik's review

hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Very well written and informative in a way that is useful and productive for everyone regardless of where they are on their journey. Also, the printable workbook pages on their website were wonderful since personally I don't like writing directly in a book.

sinnymonbunz's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

shewantsthediction's review

hopeful informative reflective

2.0

This wasn't very helpful to me as a biracial person (half Black, half white). Most of the theory was very basic and while that might be helpful to a white person who knows little to nothing about race, I've been interested in race studies for some time now and thus knew all of the theory already.

The prompts were very basic and repetitive, to the point where I stopped writing something for every single one about halfway into the book. The author also cites Ibram X. Kendi, who I don't like because he believes in reverse racism (I read How to be an Antiracist last year). Overall, this just didn't deliver in the way I hoped it would, and I'll continue looking for books that address my healing, preferably written by a Black author instead. 

manogirl's review

5.0

This was super excellent and now I need to buy a copy so I can have it to reference at a moment's notice. If you're trying to do the work of becoming an anti-racist, this is a great resource. The workbook bit may or may not work for you, but so much of the information inside is useful anyway.