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IS IT RACIST? IS IT SEXIST?
Authors
Jessi Streib
Betsy Leondar-Wright
Jessi Streib and I co-authored this book, Is It Racist? Is It Sexist? Why Red and Blue White People Disagree, and How to Decide in the Gray Areas (Stanford University Press, 2025)
If you’d like to read it in a book group, here’s a Discussion Guide.
If you’d like to use it in a college course, here’s a Teaching Guide.
"Using engaging prose that will appeal to anyone curious about the reasoning behind white views on racism and sexism, Streib and Leondar-Wright expose the different logics whites use to make sense of charged situations. Highly recommended!”
NATASHA WARIKOO
Author of Is Affirmative Action Fair?
“A good book to think with. The authors are candid about their own lean- ings out of the gate, and speak unapologetically and earnestly from that point of view, while also modeling intellectual charity and humility. In this way, the book itself serves as a good example of the habits the conclusion encourages for others. A valuable book for social analysts and laypeople alike, across a broad spectrum of moral and political views.”
MUSA AL-GHARBI
Author of We Have Never Been Woke
Media coverage of Is It Racist?
- “The Fallacy of Thinking that Trump Voters Are Probably Racist” by Betsy Leondar-Wright, in the Boston Globe
- Forbes magazine, “Why Liberals See Trump as Racist and Sexist while Conservatives Don’t”
- Is it Racist? Is it Sexist? Unpacking Bias and Bridging America’s Deep Divides by Vishal Balachandar at Duke.edu
- “You May Be Missing the Racism and Sexism Happening in Your Firm” by Jessi Streib in Forbes
- Racism & Sexism? WHMP “Talk the Talk” Amherst, Northampton, and Greenfield, MA
- Is it racist? Is it sexist? WCAI “The Point” with Mindy Todd
- We Thought We Knew Racism and Sexism WSCA “Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen