When I was 23 years old, I found myself hiding in a dorm out of fear that a race riot was about to happen on my college campus. Why? Because Black students had protested the Confederate flag at a football game. It is an odd sensation to be able to look back at the single moment that altered the trajectory of how I related to the world. Before that night, I was only starting to wake up to the reality of what bigotry can do to people. By sunrise the next day, I had seen bigotry's face and resolved not only to never ignore it but to understand what bigotry does to individuals.
On Bigotry: Twenty Lessons on How Bigotry Works and What to Do About It breaks down the curriculum of bigotry into concise, accessible chapters that explore both the historic and contemporary manifestations of bigotry in American society. This book will help readers become literate in how bigots think, the rhetorical tactics that bigotry uses to justify itself, and what readers can do to rebuke bigotry.
