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Blair Imani is the teacher I wish Id had at school, and the educator Im grateful to learn from now. Read This to Get Smarter is a book the world sorely needs. Written in her signature style that blends deep learning with ease and approachability, Blair answers the questions that so many of us are asking ourselves. This book helps plug the gaps of understanding that so many of us have and supports us in becoming better human beings and better ancestors.
LAYLA F . SAAD , AUTHOR OF ME AND WHITE SUPREMACY
As a young educator at Planned Parenthood, Blair Imani demonstrated her passion for teaching and building community. In Read This to Get Smarter, Blair provides a roadmap to better understanding the most important issues in our culture today, including race, class, gender, and disability. She approaches these important topics with humility and provides readers with the tools they need to get smarter.
CECILE RICHARDS , FORMER PRESIDENT , PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA
Blair Imani writes about identity with a singular wit and accessibility that makes Read This to Get Smarter an essential guide for curious people of any age. The twenty-first century offers us countless opportunities to look foolishin very avoidable ways, in front of lots of peoplebut thankfully, Blair is here to help.
JAMAL JORDAN , AUTHOR OF QUEER LOVE IN COLOR
If you want a deeper understanding of the multi-layer universe of people with disabilities, this book is a great place to start.
JILLIAN MERCADO , MODEL , ACTOR , AND FOUNDER OF BLACK DISABLED CREATIVES
Blair Imanis Read This to Get Smarter is a necessary guide for anyone committed to justice in their personal and political lives. Imani approaches readers with a deep kindness and offers them concrete tools for thinking anew about race, gender, class, and sexuality, and for imagining a different kind of world.
JENNIFER C . NASH , AUTHOR OF BLACK FEMINISM REIMAGINED
I did indeed read this to get smarter, and Blair Imani does not disappoint. As a queer Jew, to see such thoughtful passages reflecting my own identity left me even more inspired to continue to educate myself on the history and experiences of others.
JAKE COHEN , NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF JEW-ISH: A COOKBOOK
I love Blairs style of educating. Her fun and colorful personality (and fashion) really makes learning fun, but my favorite thing about Blair is how she calls on people affected by a certain issue or subject to speak on it and amplifies their voices. I wish more educators did that.
NATHALIE EMMANUEL , ACTOR
Copyright 2021 by Blair Imani
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York
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TO EVERYBODY WHO HAS EVER BEEN MADE TO FEEL LIKE A NOBODY.
Welcome! Thank you for being here. My name is Blair Imani, and I am an author, educator, and historian. I firmly believe that learning is a blessing, and my life is dedicated to learning and helping others learn. First things first: you are already smart. Intelligence is the ability to learn and apply information, and that is something that we all do every day. Even though we are already smart, we can always get smarter about the world, topics were not deeply familiar with, and the lived experiences of other people. Read This to Get Smarter explores how we can become more informed, compassionate, and intentional as we work to better understand ourselves, others, and the systems around us. Getting smarter is a journey, not a destination, and a great deal of our journey will involve unlearning. Patience, mutual respect, and perseverance are important tools to carry along the way.
It might be frustrating to realize that we will never be done in our learning journeys, but its also exciting because we can constantly transform our perspectives as more accurate information becomes available. Many of the understandings we have been taught and socialized to believe are based on the assumptions of long dead European colonizers who worked to maintain systems of supremacy and dominance instead of presenting fact, evidence, or truth. If we do not prioritize getting smarter, then we deny ourselves the full complexity of the human experience and instead subsist on inadequate and harmful assumptions. It is not my intention to present solutions to the myriad consequences of these assumptionsinstead, I offer a starting place to achieve a shared understanding. Inspired by Smarter in Seconds, my viral thirty-second microlearning video series, Read This to Get Smarter utilizes my signature concision to make abstract and theoretical concepts more concrete in a well-researched, well-presented, and accessible manner. I do my best to educate others from a place of humility, and I am honored that you have dedicated a fraction of your time in this life to learn from and with me.
Read This to Get Smarter is divided into chapters on identity; relationships; class; disability; race and racism; and sex, gender, and sexual Orientation. Starting with ourselves and working outward, my goal with this book is to provide an important foundation of knowledge ready to be expanded. We will get smarter using information that is strongly supported by the decolonized historical and anthropological record, sociology, and the work of scholars past and present. This book contains valuable tools such as charts on terminology and corresponding explanations, guidance for interpersonal interactions such as how to apologize, and a comprehensive timeline on the invention of race. Every journey toward getting smarter is different, so feel free to read this book in order, skip around, and take notes throughout in as much or as little time as you need. Each chapter concludes with reflection questions to help you apply your new understandingsyou can think about them, discuss them with a friend, or journal about them. Our very consciousness means we can Get Smarter and collectively experience the blessing of learning every single day. Lets get started.
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