Real Friends Talk about Race: Bridging the Gaps Through Uncomfortable Conversations

Real Friends Talk About Race is a timely and essential guide on how to have uncomfortable conversations about race to be better friends across racial divides. Having conversations about race is uncomfortable. But for progress between individuals (and our communities) to happen, we need to be able to have honest and insightful communication. Podcast hosts of The Kinswomen, Yseult and Hannah, use their own friendship and experiences from different racial backgrounds to offer guidance on navigating these layered conversations. In Real Friends Talk About Race, the duo shares their two perspectives on the covert and overt ways racism shows up in our daily lives. Readers will feel better equipped to have honest dialogue about race, and be more comfortable identifying racism in themselves, their surroundings and on their Instagram feeds. Yseult and Hannah approach these topics with love and candor-calling readers in (not out) to confront hard realities and their own internalized biases, while also sharing prescriptive advice, encouragement and a sense of community.Real Friends Talk About Race is a must-read that offers an insightful look into the complexities of interracial friendships.