Racial Identity, Complexity, And Resilience -

The conversation around racial identity matters now as never before, yet it’s fraught with confusions and partial truths. Many people who want to be on the right side of history are puzzled and all too often muzzled. I’m for taking a more expansive view that embraces human complexity and accepts people where they are while challenging them to grow.

My intended audience is Americans who identify as white. You come to the conversation to do good by your team, organization, and society. I want you to walk away with greater resilience for every challenge life brings. This is your life, your story. Forget about being a rescuer, victim, or persecutor. It’s time to be heroes, together, stretching ourselves for the benefit of all of us. Here are resources to support you.

Essays and papers

Two-part constructive critique of Robin DiAngelo's book White Fragility:

"Can Ibram X. Kendi help you grow"?

My take on JEDI (Justice, Equiy, Diversity, and Inclusion), published in Integral Review. An extended response to Aftab Erfan's paper in the same journal.

"Want resilience? Black American culture has you covered"

"The Omni-American vision and developmental politics."

"Deracializing people doesn't erase Black American culture. It honors it."

Black American Resilience and the "We Can Do This" Mood

e-books

Reimagining American Identity—my e-book with Greg Thomas and Jewel Kinch-Thomas, available for free here.

How To Be An Anti-race Antiracist—my e-book, available for free here

Teleclasses and conference talks