Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness (Ordinary Terrible Things)
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In this incisive, accessible work, Anastasia Higginbotham examines whiteness not as a personal trait but as a system—one that shapes everyday life, institutions, and the stories people tell themselves about fairness and belonging. Through clear analysis and grounded examples, she traces how racial power can feel ordinary, even “reasonable,” while still producing harm. The book invites readers to recognize the mechanisms of comfort, denial, and normalization that allow inequality to persist, and to consider what it would mean to think and act differently. Blending sharp social critique with a readable, conversational style, it offers a practical framework for understanding race as lived experience and for moving toward accountability and change.
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First Published
2018
Language
eng
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