The Right Kind of White: A Memoir

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A revelatory memoir seeking to reimagine white identity through a lens of compassion, curiosity, and nuance as Garett Bucks documents his various attempts and failures to define himself in relation to other white peopleas either heroes to admire or villains to rejectexploring the limits of those definitions and the journey to create a more expansive language for his white identity.

In our current political moment where white Americans are being asked to reevaluate how American history, policy, and mass media informs the way they see Black and Brown Americans, Garett Buckss memoir specifically models what the challenge looks like for a white American man to reevaluate what being white can mean if its centered on an affirmative sense of cultural identity that isnt dependent on exclusion.

The Right Kind of White is a groundbreaking memoir that offers an open and honest discussion of race and how understanding ones own white identity can create the racial accountability needed in much of the nations discourse.

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Garrett Bucks is the founder of The Barnraisers Project, which has trained nearly one thousand participants to organize majority-white communities for racial and social justice. He is also the author the popular newsletterThe White Pages. Originally from Montana, he lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with his wife and two children.The Right Kind of Whiteis his first book.