This is Why I Resist: Don't Define My Black Identity

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This Is Why I Resist doesn’t shy away from uncovering the white privilege that has played out time and time again.

This is Why I Resist by Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu - Waterstones

Where other books take White people by the hand to help them negotiate issues of race, This Is Why I Resist offers no sugar-coated comfort, instead it challenges and asks WHEN will White people progress on race inclusion. The point is, last year we even had staff, employees, saying to their employers, ‘this must change’.It’s incredibly exhausting and almost like a vicious cycle that we have to keep explaining, trying to educate and trying to respond. People come up with this whole thing about, ‘well, you can’t just say, because she’s Asian, she’s black, that they can’t have their own mind’. Its genesis came two years ago – before the killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests forced the world to sit up and take notice.

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At last year’s virtual Conservative Party conference, home secretary Priti Patel condemned the tactics of BLM and Extinction Rebellion protesters, as she criticised the “hooliganism and thuggery” seen on the country’s streets. Mos-Shogbamimu was a fervent campaigner, an attendee at rallies, but thinks the next move will be a long game. Direct, unapologetic and urgent in her message which centers on the individual doing ‘something now to break away from the structures that choke us, in all areas of life’, Mos-Shogbamimu, an activist, lawyer and political commentator, doesn’t disappoint with this book.She speaks of joining a feminist movement organised by white women and being judged by those very women, who felt that she was “too vocal” and “intense” in her speeches and kept speaking about race. This is Why I Resist’ – subtitled ‘Don’t Define My Black Identity’ – is a deep dive into the roots of racism in the UK and US, delving into little-explored areas. White women’s desire to be the heads of feminism movements and ones in control, shows their white supremacy complex’. If you are interested in interviewing Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu for your TV show, Thought leadership articles,Newspaper or Publications, booking her for a live event or require any additional information regarding Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu then please fill in the enquiry form. Shola has provided essential insight and her dedication to political activism is helping the Women's March on London move forward.

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It is more than navigating the threads of histories to see all the atrocities perpetrated against Black people. This book is not simply an expression or outcry for change, but a physical, tangible display of what racism is.What they do is legitimise the divisive rhetoric, the oppression, the system of oppression used against people from their own ethnicity. However, there are still questions about how Black authors must bear the emotional weight of teaching others about white supremacy. Whether that be in terms of Black intelligence, work ethic, physical traits, families, and emotions. The book takes real life modern day examples of racism to show the reader the many different forms such discrimination can take, from more ‘obvious’ shows of hatred, to more ‘subtle’ symptoms of prejudice.

This is Why I Resist by Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu - Waterstones This is Why I Resist by Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu - Waterstones

Using real life examples from the modern day, Dr Shola shows us the different forms racism takes in our day-to-day lives and asks us to raise our voice to end the oppression. The reality is that every single language or rhetoric we hear today existed 50 years ago, 500 years ago, so what we have to do is not shy away from fighting the good fight.Of course, George Floyd was not the only Black person in America who died following police contact that year. By her definition, feminism is about the “solidarity of women from all creeds, races and backgrounds for the universal goal of equality and the end of patriarchy and misogyny. Reading this section felt like having a girl chat with your friends, who all happen to be Black, and therefore understand the things you go through. Both books look at intersectionality within feminism and how it is important to unpack what feminism is because for many years it has dismissed the perspectives of Black women.