Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

'I invite you to be courageous and get comfortable with being uncomfortable, because any discomfort you feel is temporary and pales in comparison to what black and brown people often have to experience on a daily basis.



Are you ready?



Let's get started, we have work to do.'

The Good Ally is an urgent call to arms to become better allies against racism and provides a thoughtful approach, centering collective healing, to do so.



It is a book for those against persistent racial injustice, hungry to expand their knowledge and understanding of systemic racism in Britain and beyond. It uncovers the roots of racism and its birthplace, anti-Blackness.



It is for those who not only want to be able to better recognise both subtle and overt forms of racism in action, to examine their powerful role in it, but who want to know what to do about it. The answer often lies within.



The Good Ally is the answer to 'what next?'

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction (p. 1)
• 1 The Trouble with White Privilege and its Intersection with Racism (p. 16)
• 2 Performative Allyship: The Hero and the Ego (p. 44)
• 3 Grey Matter: Beyond Black and White (p. 68)
• 4 Microaggressions: A Devastating Avalanche (p. 86)
• 5 Disrupting Racialised Fragility and Anti-Blackness (p. 119)
• 6 Moral Monsters: Racism and Shame (p. 153)
• 7 Black Women Are Divine (p. 194)
• 8 Armour Up: Self-Care and Advocacy (p. 243)
• 9 Raising the Next Generation (p. 259)
• 10 Brokering Change: Tackling Racism at Work (p. 306)
• 11 Brokering Change: Action and Advocacy (p. 342)
• 12 Courage is Contagious (p. 395)
• Epilogue (p. 406)
• Endnotes (p. 411)
• Acknowledgements (p. 441)
• Further Resources (p. 444)