Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness (Ordinary Terrible Things)

Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness (Ordinary Terrible Things)

Not My Idea, the latest in the critically-acclaimed Ordinary Terrible Things series, is a book about whiteness.

A white child sees TV news coverage of a white police officer shooting a brown person who…

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