I'm Still Here

Outline

I'm Still Here (2018) is Austin Channing Brown’s memoir of growing up as a Black woman in predominantly white schools, workplaces, and religious communities in the United States. She describes the pressures and assumptions she faced and the difference between well-meaning talk about diversity and real change. The book calls for honesty, dignity, and genuine commitment to racial justice.

• The book is a memoir of growing up as a Black woman in mostly white schools, workplaces and religious communities in the United States.
• Brown describes the pressures and assumptions she faced in those spaces, told from her own lived experience.
• She separates well-meaning talk about diversity from real change, and shows that the two are not the same.
• The book asks for honesty, dignity and a genuine commitment to racial justice.

Austin Channing Brown is an American writer, speaker, and producer whose work focuses on racial justice and dignity. She is known for her essays and talks on race in America and has produced a web series on the subject.