Awakening to the Violence
of Systemic Racism
Sherine Green, a member of the MSJC Immigrant Justice Team, has co-authored this new book. Here are her reflections about the book:
---We believe there is a tremendous need
---for many white people who live in
---isolation of African American people to understand how
---African American people feel about the insults and injuries
---they suffer as a result of living within a dominant culture
---where many believe they are superior to African American
---people.
---Awakening is intended to open white people’s hearts and
---minds to a greater understanding of the magnitude,
---severity, and insidiousness of the structural injustice and
---institutionalized violence of racism that permeates virtually
---all of our institutions. It focuses on this injustice through
---the lens of the Gospels. It touches on only a few of the
---ways African American people have been controlled,
---abused, and exploited for the benefit of white people.
