Racial Exhaustion
Drawing from her experience running "Interrupting Privilege," a racial dialogue program, Ralina Joseph blends personal narrative, real-world dialogue, and critical race scholarship to explore how we communicate race today—and how we can do better. Through practices of deep listening, embracing discomfort, and interrupting microaggressions, this book guides readers in transforming everyday interactions into opportunities for anti-racist change.
Racial Exhaustion challenges us to recognize and address the fatigue that racial discourse brings while offering practical strategies to foster more equitable and productive conversations.
communicate race today—and how we can do better. Through practices of deep listening, embracing discomfort, and interrupting microaggressions, this book guides readers in transforming everyday interactions into opportunities for anti-racist change.
Racial Exhaustion challenges us to recognize and address the fatigue that racial discourse brings while offering practical strategies to foster more equitable and productive conversations.
Drawing from her experience running "Interrupting Privilege," a racial dialogue program, Ralina Joseph blends personal narrative, real-world dialogue, and critical race scholarship to explore how we
Dr. Ralina L. Joseph is a scholar, writer, and educator whose work explores how race is communicated, represented, and lived in everyday life. She is Vice Provost of Inclusive Excellence and Professor of African American Studies at UCLA, with more than two decades of experience advancing equity in higher education.
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Radical Listening for Racial Exhaustion
What Makes You Think I’m African American?’: Identity Performance, Code Switching, and the Strong Black Woman on Love is Blind,
A Joyful Unsettling: Considering Black Media Studies and Social Justice
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Essays and articles exploring race and the moments where conversations take shape—or fall apart. These pieces extend the work beyond books, responding to what’s happening now, asking new questions, and staying in conversation.