An Analysis Of 'Waking Up White And Finding Myself In The Story Of Race'

Blog #1 In the nonfiction book, Waking up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race the author Debby Irving talks about the twenty-five years she sensed racial tensions in her personal and professional life. The story talks about Irving "aha" moment that shifted her world view. In the introduction of the book she lists 5 common beliefs in society today. The most common is that racism is about bigots because bigots are people who show hatred to other groups outside their own and this is a big problem in our society today. Another problem in our society is people believe culture and ethnicity are people from other countries and other races, people do not realize culture and ethnicity is something everyone has and is apart of. The third belief