A Letter to a Friend

A Letter to a Friend
Author: Patty Smith
Publisher: New Words Publishing
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2017-10-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692825839

2018 International Book Awards FinalistBest New Non-FictionSelf-Help: RelationshipsThis new book is an important tool for anyone in an abusive relationship. Written in a loose narrative style that makes the reader a part of the story, it empowers and heals combining psychology, counseling, domestic violence, child development, and Christian principles.The author's multilayered background, as well as her own experience and that of a close friend, come together in a book you'll read again and again, and share with a friend.The bonus at the back of the book: a YouTube link to a song written for the book that helps the reader grieve-an essential part of recovery.Follow the journey of an inspired survivor who emerges stronger and wiser after accepting God's gift-a gift she's had all along. Each chapter delivers a message of it's own in a beautifully written, insightful story. Thoughtfully crafted in a short, powerful read, A Letter to a Friend offers renewed hope for love, comfort, and protection.

Letters to My White Male Friends

Letters to My White Male Friends
Author: Dax-Devlon Ross
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2021-06-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1250276845

In Letters to My White Male Friends, Dax-Devlon Ross speaks directly to the millions of middle-aged white men who are suddenly awakening to race and racism. White men are finally realizing that simply not being racist isn’t enough to end racism. These men want deeper insight not only into how racism has harmed Black people, but, for the first time, into how it has harmed them. They are beginning to see that racism warps us all. Letters to My White Male Friends promises to help men who have said they are committed to change and to develop the capacity to see, feel and sustain that commitment so they can help secure racial justice for us all. Ross helps readers understand what it meant to be America’s first generation raised after the civil rights era. He explains how we were all educated with colorblind narratives and symbols that typically, albeit implicitly, privileged whiteness and denigrated Blackness. He provides the context and color of his own experiences in white schools so that white men can revisit moments in their lives where racism was in the room even when they didn’t see it enter. Ross shows how learning to see the harm that racism did to him, and forgiving himself, gave him the empathy to see the harm it does to white people as well. Ultimately, Ross offers white men direction so that they can take just action in their workplace, community, family, and, most importantly, in themselves, especially in the future when race is no longer in the spotlight.