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Unfollow me : essays on complicity / Jill Louise Busby.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: xviii, 201 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781635577112
  • 163557711X
Uniform titles:
  • Essays. Selections
Contained works:
  • Busby, Jill Louise. Essays. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Hi, liberal white people -- Still, until -- Dear white hippiecrites -- A consquence of us -- Dear you (my favorite cousin) -- Fly home -- Dear Black revolutionary internet intellectuals -- This is how it starts -- (Dear Dad) -- A friend of men -- Dear Black people -- Flowers for the Black artists -- Dear Jillisblack -- Let the little people through -- Do you ever think about why people unfollow you? -- Unfollow me.
Summary: A cultural commentator presents this memoir-in-essays in which she provides a deeply personal, razor-sharp critique of white fragility, respectability politics, and all the places where fear masquerades as progress. Jill Louise Busby spent years speaking at academic institutions, businesses, and detention centres on the topics of Race, Power, and Privilege. In 2016, fed up with what passed as progressive in the Pacific Northwest, Busby uploaded a one-minute video about race, white institutions, and faux liberalism to Instagram. This is a memoir-in-essays about race, progress, and hypocrisy.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 305.8009 B976 Available 33111010562755
Adult Book Adult Book Northport Library NonFiction 305.8009 B976 Available 33111009855194
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An intimate, impertinent, and incisive collection about race, progress, and hypocrisy from Jill Louise Busby, aka Jillisblack.

Jill Louise Busby spent years in the nonprofit sector specializing in Diversity & Inclusion. She spoke at academic institutions, businesses, and detention centers on the topics of Race, Power, and Privilege and delivered over two-hundred workshops to nonprofit organizations all over the California Bay Area.

In 2016, fed up with what passed as progressive in the Pacific Northwest, Busby uploaded a one-minute video about race, white institutions, and faux liberalism to Instagram. The video received millions of views across social platforms. As her pithy persona Jillisblack became an "it-voice" weighing in on all things race-based, Jill began to notice parallels between her performance of "diversity" in the white corporate world and her performance of "wokeness" for her followers. Both, she realized, were scripted.

Unfollow Me is a memoir-in-essays about these scripts; it's about tokenism, micro-fame, and inhabiting spaces-real and virtual, black and white-where complicity is the price of entry. Busby's social commentary manages to be both wryly funny and achingly open-hearted as she recounts her shape-shifting moves among the subtle hierarchies of progressive communities. Unfollow Me is a sharply personal and self-questioning critique of white fragility (and other words for racism), respectability politics (and other words for shame), and all the places where fear masquerades as progress.

A cultural commentator presents this memoir-in-essays in which she provides a deeply personal, razor-sharp critique of white fragility, respectability politics, and all the places where fear masquerades as progress. Jill Louise Busby spent years speaking at academic institutions, businesses, and detention centres on the topics of Race, Power, and Privilege. In 2016, fed up with what passed as progressive in the Pacific Northwest, Busby uploaded a one-minute video about race, white institutions, and faux liberalism to Instagram. This is a memoir-in-essays about race, progress, and hypocrisy.

Hi, liberal white people -- Still, until -- Dear white hippiecrites -- A consquence of us -- Dear you (my favorite cousin) -- Fly home -- Dear Black revolutionary internet intellectuals -- This is how it starts -- (Dear Dad) -- A friend of men -- Dear Black people -- Flowers for the Black artists -- Dear Jillisblack -- Let the little people through -- Do you ever think about why people unfollow you? -- Unfollow me.

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