Rev. Dr. Jennifer Harvey, a writer and educator, has actively engaged in racial justice and white antiracism for three decades. Her books include the New York Times bestseller Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in Racially Unjust America and Dear White Christians: For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation. Her forthcoming book, Antiracism as Daily Practice: Refuse Shame, Change White Communities and Help Create a Just World is available for pre-order now and will be released in July 2024 with St. Martins Press.
Since 2015, Dr. Jennifer Harvey has become a widely sought after public speaker. She has spoken all over the country and at hundreds of events—at churches, universities, non-profit organizations, and corporations, to audiences large and small, with predominantly white communities and robustly multi-racial ones.
Dr. Jennifer Harvey’s abilities to compel her audiences have been on display in events when she addressed thousands of people at the Rally to End Racism on the National Mall commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination, to appearances on CNN’s Town Hall against Racism with Sesame Street, Good Morning America and the Tamron Hall Show in 2020.
She draws often on her lived experiences and stories from her many years of learning (and making mistakes). Dr. Harvey works to grow her antiracism practice. She provides unflinching, truthful analysis of the crisis of racism and white Americans’ responsibilities. She engages with empathy, vulnerability, and sometimes even a bit of humor.
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 Antiracism as Daily Practice
Refuse Shame, Change White Communities, and Help Create a Just World
St. Martin's Press
Antiracism as Daily Practice illustrates the many ways white Americans—those newly waking to the crisis of racism in 2020 and those already aware—can choose behaviors in our everyday lives to grow racial justice. Full of real life stories, this book shows how vital it is for white people to engage in and with our families, through our social networks, in our neighborhoods, and at our jobs to make antiracism a daily living commitment.
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Raising White Kids
Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America
This New York Times best-selling book is a guide for families, educators, and communities to raise their children to be able and active anti-racist allies.
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Raising Anti-Racist White Kids: A Conversation for All of Us Difficult conundrums exist when it comes to raising white children in a society that is racially diverse, but full of racial inequity and injustice. Should we teach white kids to be “colorblind”? Or, should we teach them to notice race? And if so, how? What roles do we want them to play in addressing racism when they encounter it? How do we do that? In this presentation, we’ll talk about the challenges of nurturing anti-racist white identity and identify race- and justice-conscious strategies for doing so. Of course, everyone is affected by the way white youth are being raised in the U.S. So, whether you’ve been a white kid, are helping raise white kids, have relationships with people who used to be white kids, or have children who are friends with white kids—this conversation is for all of us.
Being an Ally with Purpose: The Power of the Employee How do we grow white participation in cultivating an environment of racial inclusion, and genuine ally-ship and camaraderie between white employees and employees of color? The ways many white people have been socialized create challenges when we’re invited or challenged to grow inclusion and racial equity in the workplace. For example, many of us think we should be “colorblind” or that “valuing diversity” is enough. Through understanding how the messages so many of us received undermine our abilities to be good allies, this can help white people grow capacity to do our part to make inclusion and equity more reality than rhetoric. We don't have to feel guilty that we don't know what we weren't taught, but we do need to decide to learn it. Even better? We can.
White Socialization and the Challenge of Anti-Racism Powerful multi-generational patterns of white socialization shape the lives of white Americans. These patterns show up in every aspect of U.S. social life, including our professional networks where they impact all of us: white people, people of color who work with them/us, practitioners, clients and more. In this presentation Dr. Harvey brings insights from her research to help us identify shared tools and practices that can grow our collective capacity to create cultures of anti-racism and true equity in our public roles and professional environments.
Best Practices and Inspiring Action: Building Alliances Across Identity so We Can Celebrate Success! (A seminar for identity-based Employee Resource Groups) Our desire to build alliances across differences is often stronger than the tools we have for making it happen. This is especially true when it comes to racial difference. But we don’t have to stay stuck. Learning more about how race has socialized white people, can help all of us together build better tools to construct stronger multi-racial connections and supportive relationships across our diverse and beautifully varied identities. **All of us have experience with and are affected by whiteness and by how white people show up when it comes to equity, inclusion and antiracism. So Dr. Harvey’s presentations and the conversations they invite are for all of us.
Listen to Jennifer Harvey on It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders – NPR.
For Amplify Live: White Too Long Webinar, listen to Jennifer Harvey discuss The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity – Amplify Live.
Hear Jennifer Harvey’s interview Raising White Kids – Interview with author Jennifer Harvey – Parenting Forward.
Listen to Jennifer Harvey on The Integrated Schools Podcast.
—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“An essential book of practical wisdom.... If you’re white and have been asking, ‘What can I do now?’ this lively and timely book is for you.”
―Robert Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy
“Jennifer Harvey has exactly the qualities necessary to help white people like me to do the inner work we need to do so we can show up constructively in the ongoing struggle for racial justice and genuine neighbor-love.... She brings deep learning and experience to her writing [and] believes what sometimes feels beyond belief: that white people really can change. Please: read this book and invite some white friends to read it with you.
—Brian D. McLaren, author of Life After Doom
"What a gift to the world...a timely resource for white persons engaged in the difficult but necessary work of truth-telling, accountability, and repentance."
—Angela D. Sims, President, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School
"This story-packed treasure paints a vivid picture of what white antiracism looks like beyond protest signs and book clubs. White individuals and institutions, this book guides us towards the micro strategies we need to choose justice over comfort, again and again, in ways that build relationships, sustain us, and finally equip us to break from our white lineage of antiracist inertia."
—Debby Irving, author of Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race
"Courageous, powerful and true, the prophetic wisdom of Dr. Jennifer Harvey strikes truth into the heart. Antiracism as Daily Practice calls us deeper into the joy of justice even as we face the hard tasks of loving ourselves and transforming our communities.... For all those seeking soul-nourishing strength to do justice daily this book is a must read!"
—Dr. Melanie L. Harris, Professor of Black Feminist Thought and Womanist Theology at Wake Forest University