



The Good Ally
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5.0 • 5 Ratings
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- £12.99
Publisher Description
‘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?’
Reviews
‘Nova’s book for me is a mental health manual for dealing with the everyday issues that arise when navigating a system that seeks to deny the existence of structural racism. She not only gives the reader detailed examples of the things that can and do arise, she also expertly offers solutions that help deal with them.’
David Harewood MBE, actor and author of Maybe I Don’t Belong Here
‘The Good Ally is a powerful trojan horse. While the title calls out to every white person who has wanted to know 'How can I become a good anti-racist ally?', it's content delivers hard-hitting facts, stories, and reflections that remind us that it's not about being good, it's about doing better.’
Layla F. Saad, Sunday Times bestselling author of Me and White Supremacy
‘On the journey to becoming a better and more effective ally, Nova’s book is a must read. It will prompt deep reflection, it will make you smile, and it might even make you cry. Through this process, it powerfully provides the insight and guidance each of us need to be better.’ Gary Coombe, CEO P&G – Global Grooming Business
‘Nova Reid is one of the most generous, open-hearted, energising writers working today. The Good Ally is a beautiful, bold and no-BS guide to getting uncomfortable, digging deep and being fully human. It will be the best and hardest work you ever do. You will not regret it.’ Emma Gannon
Nova’s chapter; ‘Black Women Are Divine’, will be a reference for our people from this point on. It will be what our people go to, in the same way we go to Dr Martin Luther King Jr's Letter from Birmingham Jail. It will be a lifelong reference that will allow us to orient, ground, heal from and make sense of white body supremacy.” Resmaa Menakem, The New York Times bestselling author of My Grandmother's Hands and The Quaking of America
About the author
Nova Reid is an activist, TED speaker, podcast host and author, on a purpose-driven mission to improve racial justice, by helping people be the change they want to see by courageously unlearning their racism.
She regularly appears on BBC News, Sky News and BBC Radio as a media expert, and received a Social Impact Award at the Precious Awards. Nova is a passionate advocate for equity, collective healing and helping people use self-agency to role-model change.
Customer Reviews
But what can I actually do?! - This book will tell you!
What an incredibly generous book. The book guides you from continuing to unlearn your own racism all the way through to giving you practical tips and examples of what you can actually DO to be an anti-racist changemaker. There is an incredible amount of work that has gone into the book and I thoroughly recommend you read it, especially if you are feeling a bit helpless and like you don’t know what you can actually do to bring about change. I know I will refer to it over and over again. Thank you Nova.
An essential read
A difficult yet cathartic read for me as a non-black woman of colour. Many of the micro aggressions Nova speaks on I have encountered, particularly whilst working in the publishing industry. However, as someone who grew up living in a majority white area in the north of England I didn’t have many interactions with black people or many any other minoritized people other than a few South Asian people. So now work begins in challenging my own, my family’s and my culture’s prejudices around black people. And continuing to raise my dual heritage kids with the language and understanding of racism from being at the receiving end and also at the point where they may use their proximity to whiteness to perpetuate racism. Thank you Nova for writing this book. Listening to you read it for me made it easier to absorb what you had written.