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    Say the Wrong Thing: Stories and Strategies for Racial Justice and Authentic Community
    Say the Wrong Thing: Stories and Strategies for Racial Justice and Authentic Community
    Say the Wrong Thing: Stories and Strategies for Racial Justice and Authentic Community
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    Say the Wrong Thing: Stories and Strategies for Racial Justice and Authentic Community

    By Amanda Kemp

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    Part memoir and part social commentary, Dr. Amanda Kemp's short book provides insight and strategies for creating racial justice and a strong sense of shared community. Her voice is vulnerable and personal as she reflects on her own interracial relationship, parenting her Black teenaged son, and making art in the age of Black Lives Matter. Her short essays leave you cheering and hopeful.

    Dr. Kemp’s searing and tender commentary about herself, life within her interracial family, and racial justice take the reader on a rare journey into an African American boundary crosser. Kemp grew up in poverty in a predominantly Black and Latino neighborhood but went on to graduate from Stanford University and earned a PhD from Northwestern University. Now married to her European American husband, Kemp watches the way that race plays out in her family, her work as a performing artist and professor, and in her spiritual journey.

    This intimate short collection of essays will leave you pondering deep questions long after you stop reading. A great conversation starter, this short book is a must read for people concerned with racial unity, making Black Lives Matter, and educators and youth development professionals.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAmanda Kemp
    Release dateJun 16, 2016
    ISBN9781311093981
    Say the Wrong Thing: Stories and Strategies for Racial Justice and Authentic Community
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    Amanda Kemp

    Dr. Amanda Kemp is a racial justice and mindfulness mentor. A proud African American, Dr. Kemp grew up in foster care in the South Bronx, NY and always dreamed of following in Dr. Martin Luther King’s footsteps. Since her first anti-apartheid march in 1983 she has actively stood for racial justice and authentic community.Drawing from her lived experience in an interracial marriage, her study of race at Stanford and Northwestern Universities,as well as over a decade of teaching at the college level, Dr. Kemp created Racial Justice from the H.E.A.R.T. This system builds skill and capacity of compassionate change makers in schools and faith communities..A Master teacher and performing artist, Dr. Kemp has helped over 25,000 people have open-hearted conversations, consciously use their power and practice compassion to cultivate racial justice and authentic community.She has worked with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the Honorable Maxine Waters, Niyonu Spann, and the movement for a free South Africa.Dr. Kemp has shared the stage and/or created with Danny Glover, August Wilson, Sonia Sanchez, Toni Morrison, George Wolfe, and Amiri Baraka. She has been featured on PBS, WITF, WGAL, LCTV.She is a frequent speaker and performer at schools and colleges such as Stanford, Berkeley, NYU, Swarthmore, Haverford, Franklin & Marshall and many others.She has addressed regional, national and international gatherings of people of faith in the Quaker, Unitarian-Universalist, and African Methodist Episcopal traditions.Her TedX Talk: How to Lean in to Difficult Conversations about Race has been used by conflict and resolution, sociology, and psychology classes at both the high school and college levels.WWW.DRAMANDAKEMP.COM

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      Say the Wrong Thing - Amanda Kemp

      Say The Wrong Thing

      Stories and Strategies for Racial Justice and Authentic Community

      BY DR. AMANDA KEMP

      Foreword by Lisa Graustein, M.Ed.

      Joy Will Come Press

      Joy Will Come Press Lancaster, PA

      Say the Wrong Thing. Copyright 2016 by Amanda Denise Kemp. All rights reserved. No part of this publication shall be reproduced, transmitted, or sold in whole or in part in any form, without the prior written consent of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in reviews and critical articles.

      For information contact Dr. Amanda Kemp 342 N. Queen St. Lancaster, PA 17603 Book design: Debbie Witt, Witt’s End, Inc.

      The information contained in this book is for informational purposes only.

      I am not a psychologist. You should always seek the advice of a professional before acting on something that I have published or recommended.

      The material in this book may include information, products or services by third parties. Third Party Materials comprise of the products and opinions expressed by their owners. As such, I do not assume responsibility or liability for any Third Party material or opinions.

      The publication of such Third Party Materials does not constitute my guarantee of any information, instruction, opinion, products or services contained within the Third Party Material. The use of recommended Third Party Material does not guarantee any success related to you. Publication of such Third Party Material is simply a recommendation and an expression of my own opinion of that material.

      For Michael Jamanis whose open heart and open mind

      have often pulled me into my own heart.

      For Great Aunt Bessie,

      who is great in wisdom, love and age.

      For the Tribe of the Heart,

      people who stand for Oneness and Justice, who are consciously co-creating the Great Shift.

      Table Of Contents

      PREFACE

      FOREWORD

      INTRODUCTION: SAY THE WRONG THING AND STRATEGIES OF THE H.E.A.R.T.

      H.E.A.R.T. STRATEGY: HOLD SPACE FOR TRANSFORMATION

      We Are Here for All of Us, No Exceptions!

      Heaven or Hell?

      Lean in

      H.E.A.R.T. STRATEGY: EXPRESS YOURSELF

      Staying Healthy When Black Lives Don’t Matter

      From My Son; to My Son

      H.E.A.R.T. STRATEGY: ACT WITH INTENTION

      My Mistake

      When You Lose Your Power

      Say Her Name, Inspira and Art as Ceremony

      H.E.A.R.T. STRATEGY: REFLECT ON YOURSELF

      Walking While Black

      If You’re Black, Jump Back

      H.E.A.R.T. STRATEGY: TRUST THE PROCESS

      Pray for Me

      How to Get Back up after You Fall

      Is It Time to Trash Your Mantra?

      APPENDICES

      Acknowledgements

      About the Author

      Work with Dr. Amanda Kemp

      Also by Dr. Amanda Kemp

      Preface

      This book is a compilation of some of the most popular posts on my blog On a Mission to Heal the Planet. In each essay I share my struggles to stand for justice and oneness. I write as an educator, an artist, a parent and a wife. I write as an African American who lives in an interracial family. I write as someone who grew up in the foster care system of New York City in the South Bronx. I have experienced hunger, neglect and incredible privilege at an all girls boarding school. I’ve had the chance to experience extremes in my lifetime.

      When I first published many of these essays as blog posts, I was surprised to find that my stories struck an emotional chord.

      People of color told me they felt good to have their experiences articulated. White readers felt invited into an intimate conversation about race that expanded their understanding and hearts. People whom I knew

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