Advancement Project Co-Director, Penda Hair Explores White Activists and the Racial Justice Movement
August 31, 2010
Advancement Project, Co-Director, Penda Hair is featured in Fire in the Heart: How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice, a book by leading sociologist, Mark Warner. Fire in the Heart uncovers the dynamic processes through which some white Americans become activists for racial justice. The book details powerful accounts of the development of racial awareness drawn from in-depth interviews with fifty white activists in the fields of community organizing, education, and criminal justice reform.
The interviews demonstrate how white Americans develop a commitment to racial justice, not simply because it is the right thing to do, but because they see the cause as their own.
On Wednesday, September 1, Hair along with others will participate in a panel discussion of the book at Busboys and Poets (5th and K Street NW) from 6:30-8:00 PM . The event is free and open to all!
To purchase Fire in the Heart please click here.
“In his timely, well-researched, and profoundly creative book, Mark Warren enables us to appreciate the power of moral understanding as a major source of the motivation to act, especially in ways that challenge the status quo. By focusing on racial ‘border crossers,’ people engaged in what seems to be inherently paradoxical action, he takes us well beyond the arid models of human motivation all too common in social science. By reconnecting ‘head, hands, and heart’ he helps us understand the courage to make change. And by combining the richness of narrative with systematic analysis, he makes a genuinely unique contribution to our understanding of why we do what we do. Warren’s book, like his first one, is of unusual value to scholars, practitioners, and the interested public.” – Marshall Ganz, author of Why David Sometimes Wins
