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Date posted:   Apr 14, 2021

The Online Book Club: I'm Still Here

Photo of I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Fee: $30
Four Weeks

Check the course schedule for future offerings of this course.

Austin Channing Brown was named Austin by her parents so future hiring committees would think that she was a white man. This is the first of many personal stories that Channing Brown shares in her book about her own encounters with race as a child, adolescent, young adult, and woman in a society made for whiteness. Join us in discussing Channing Brown’s experiences as she grows to love and celebrate Blackness while navigating the many barriers in pursuit of racial justice.

This course has a required text:  Austin Channing Brown. I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness. Convergent Books, 2018.

Topics

Getting Started Week: Introduction to the course

Week 1: The Experiences that Shape Me

Week 2: Our Stories and Our Feelings

Week 3: Shadow of Hope

Special Features

This course includes:

  • Initial comments to introduce the book;
  • Weekly questions to begin the discussion;
  • A regularly updated Resources page for further study on the topics discussed in this course

All Crossroads courses include these features:Participants have access 24 hours/7 days a week to the course's password-protected website. 

  • Each participant belongs to a small Community for Conversation and faith sharing guided by a facilitator.
  • The course site is usually available to participants at least three months after the course.
  • An orientation on how to navigate the web site is always available.
  • Technical assistance is easy to contact and prompt in returning a message.
  • A Certificate of Active Participation is awarded to those who post at least three messages of substance for each week of content.

Additional Materials:

Austin Channing Brown. I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness. Convergent Books, 2018.

Time Commitment

A participant can expect to spend an average of approximately 4 hours each week. This commitment includes both the assigned reading and interaction online.

Certificate Requirement Categories

  • The Moral Life

Content Scholar:

Austin Channing Brown (text) is a writer, a speaker, and a media producer working on racial justice in America. She is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness and the Executive Producer of The Next Question: A Web Series Imagining How Expansive Racial Justice Can Be.