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Zusatztext As a dark skinned, black woman whose just as black child was just four when she was told that she couldn't play with other children because her skin was too dark I cannot repeat how vital Pragya's book is. Of late "vital" has become such a buzzword so I don't want it to feel as though it's a throwaway but I can't think of another word which helps cement just how much a book like this should be an anchor not just in home libraries but also in school curriculums. l have learnt so much that even if you aren't a parent I think this is a very necessary read because whether you are thanked for it or not we are all playing a part in teaching and unlearning for the future generations. If there is even a speck of hope for a post racial society books like this are what we need to be reading in order to get about building it Informationen zum Autor Dr Pragya Agarwal Klappentext Praise for Sway 'Agarwal's diagnosis of the political harms of bias is passionate and urgent' Guardian , Book of the Week 'Fascinating, sometimes challenging, read, for fans of Caroline Criado Perez's Invisible Women and Angela Saini's Superior' BBC Science Focus 'This book exposes the insidiousness of unconscious bias and offers us a way to change the way we think that is practical, useful, readable and essential for the times we are living in' Nikesh Shukla, author and editor of The Good Immigrant 'An exhaustive, brilliantly researched survey of bias and how it seeps so easily into our everyday thoughts and actions, from gender essentialism to casual racism. Calmly and without polemic, Agarwal explains why we all need to work harder to avoid lazy prejudice and simplistic narratives if we are to build a fairer society' Angela Saini Vorwort Wish We Knew What to Say is a vital toolkit for parents from all backgrounds to talk openly and honestly about race to their children between the ages of 2-12 about race. Zusammenfassung Wish We Knew What to Say is a vital toolkit for parents from all backgrounds to talk openly and honestly about race to their children between the ages of 2-12 about race....
A propos de l'auteur
Dr Pragya Agarwal is a behavioural and data scientist, and a freelance journalist. As a Senior Academic in US and UK universities, she has held the prestigious Leverhulme Fellowship, following a PhD from the University of Nottingham. Pragya is the author of
SWAY: Unravelling Unconscious Bias. As a freelance journalist, her writing has appeared in the
Guardian,
Independent,
BMJ,
Times Higher Education,
Huffington Post,
Prospect,
Forbes, and many more.
Pragya moved to the UK from India almost twenty years ago, and now lives in the north-west with her family.
