Emma Dabiri

What White People Can Do Next

  • What White People Can Do Next

  • An incisive - and deeply practical - essay from the acclaimed author of Don't Touch My Hair

    Stop the denial
    Abandon guilt
    Interrogate capitalism

    When it comes to racial justice, how do we transform demonstrations of support into real and meaningful change? With intellectual rigour and razor-sharp wit, Emma Dabiri cuts through the haze of online discourse to offer clear advice.

RELEASED 04/03/2021

Don't Touch My Hair
Don't Touch My Hair
Emma Dabiri

Emma Dabiri is a teaching fellow in the Africa department at SOAS and a Visual Sociology PhD researcher at Goldsmiths. She has been published in a number of anthologies - alongside such post-colonial heavyweights as Homi Bhabha and Achille Mbembe - academic journals, as well as the national press. A regular BBC face she presented 'Back in Time Brixton' (BBC2), 'Britain's Lost Masterpieces' (BBC4), as well as the sociological experiment 'Is Love Racist?' (Ch4). Most recently, she hosted Radio 4's critically-acclaimed documentary 'Journeys into Afro-futurism'.

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