
A More Just Future
Psychological Tools for Reckoning with Our Past and Driving Social Change
Dolly Chugh(Author)
Atria Books (Publisher)
Published on 21. November 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-9821-5761-6 (ISBN)
Description
Winner of the 2024 Getting To We Words Create Worlds Award
In the vein of Think Again and Do Better, a revolutionary, "welcome, and urgent invitation" (Angela Duckworth, #1 New York Times bestselling author) to explore the emotional relationship we have with our country's complicated and whitewashed history so that we can build a better future.
As we grapple with news stories about our country's racial fault lines, our challenge is not just to learn about the past, but also to cope with the "belief grief" that unlearning requires. If you are on the emotional journey of reckoning with the past, such as the massacre of Black Americans in Tulsa, the killing of Native American children in compulsory "residential schools" designed to destroy their culture, and the incarceration of Japanese Americans, you are not alone. The seeds of today's inequalities were sown in past events like these. The time to unlearn the whitewashed history we believed was true is now.
As historians share these truths, we will need psychologists to help us navigate the shame, guilt, disbelief, and despair many of us feel. In A More Just Future, Dolly Chugh, award-winning professor, social psychologist, and author of the acclaimed The Person You Mean to Be, invites us to dismantle the systems built by our forebearers and work toward a more just future.
Through heartrending personal histories and practical advice, Chugh gives us the psychological tools we need to grapple with the truth of our country with "one of the most moving and important behavioral science books of the last decade" (Katy Milkman, author of How to Change).
In the vein of Think Again and Do Better, a revolutionary, "welcome, and urgent invitation" (Angela Duckworth, #1 New York Times bestselling author) to explore the emotional relationship we have with our country's complicated and whitewashed history so that we can build a better future.
As we grapple with news stories about our country's racial fault lines, our challenge is not just to learn about the past, but also to cope with the "belief grief" that unlearning requires. If you are on the emotional journey of reckoning with the past, such as the massacre of Black Americans in Tulsa, the killing of Native American children in compulsory "residential schools" designed to destroy their culture, and the incarceration of Japanese Americans, you are not alone. The seeds of today's inequalities were sown in past events like these. The time to unlearn the whitewashed history we believed was true is now.
As historians share these truths, we will need psychologists to help us navigate the shame, guilt, disbelief, and despair many of us feel. In A More Just Future, Dolly Chugh, award-winning professor, social psychologist, and author of the acclaimed The Person You Mean to Be, invites us to dismantle the systems built by our forebearers and work toward a more just future.
Through heartrending personal histories and practical advice, Chugh gives us the psychological tools we need to grapple with the truth of our country with "one of the most moving and important behavioral science books of the last decade" (Katy Milkman, author of How to Change).
Reviews / Votes
"A vulnerable, compassionate, and pragmatic psychological guide to facing the darkest corners of America's past." -- <B><I>Kirkus Reviews</I></B> "Marked by its authenticity and sense of encouragement, this is a welcome look at how the average person can help fulfill America's promise." -- <B><I>Publishers Weekly</I></B>More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
204 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-9821-5761-6 (9781982157616)
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Dolly Chugh
A More Just Future
Psychological Tools for Reckoning with Our Past and Driving Social Change
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10/2022
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Dolly Chugh is a Harvard educated, award-winning social psychologist at the NYU Stern School of Business, where she is an expert researcher in the psychology of good people. In 2018, she delivered the popular TED Talk "How to let go of being a 'good' person and become a better person." She is the author of A More Just Future and The Person You Mean to Be. Find out more at DollyChugh.com.