Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving

Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race

Debby Irving

288 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction memoir race challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Waking Up White is the book Irving wishes someone had handed her decades ago. By sharing her sometimes cringe-worthy struggle to understand racism and racial tensions, she offers a fresh perspective on bias, stereotypes, manners, and tolerance. As...

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informative 87%
reflective 75%
challenging 56%
inspiring 31%
emotional 18%
hopeful 18%
tense 6%

Pace

medium 68%
slow 31%

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