White Minds

In today's episode Guilaine reflects on the new book she is writing: White Minds

Pre-order: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/white-minds

She considers the process of writing her second book, gives an overview of the book's focus and thinks about what she has learned about being a writer and author.

She talks about how her writing style is difficult to define because it mixes theory and ideas with personal anecdotes and auto-ethnography. And how, whilst she has tried to keep both books accessible because that's an important part of the job of education and the project of anti-racism, White Minds is a little bit more challenging as a text.

She considers her new book in relation to her first book and discusses its content which may be seen as controversial because it focuses on the pathology of whiteness from the perspective of the white subject rather than the racialised other. It looks at how White Supremacy harms all of us and shifts the analytic gaze to make whiteness the subject. How white people function in society, how that reproduces white supremacy and then how white supremacy reproduces white minds. This focus is an act of transgression, defiance and resistance by interrogating the people at the perpetrating end of racialised oppression and domination. Looking at the psychosocial pathology of whiteness on the white subject.

And she ends by sharing some thoughts on what she has learnt as a writer.

Living While Black: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/442992/living-while-black-by-kinouani-guilaine/9781529109436

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