The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege

By Brendan Kiely

Book Overview

Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Brendan Kiely starts a conversation with white kids about race in this accessible introduction to white privilege, allyship, and anti-racism.

All too many kids of color get "the talk." The talk about where to keep their hands, how to wear their clothes, how to speak, how to act around police--an honest talk, a talk about survival in a racist world. The get "the talk" because they must.

But white kids don't get this talk. Instead, they're barely spoken to about race at all--and that needs to change.

The Other Talk begins this much-needed conversation for white kids. In an accessible, anecdotal, and honest account from his own life, Brendan Kiely introduces young readers to white privilege, unconscious bias, and allyship--because racism isn't just an issue for people of color, it's an issue white people have to deal with, too, and it's time we all start doing our part.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1534494049
• ISBN13: 9781534494046
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12