Silencing White Noise: Six Practices to Overcome Our Inaction on Race

Racism is omnipresent in American life, both public and private. We are immersed in what prominent Black church leader Willie Dwayne Francois III calls white noise-the racist speech, ideas, and policies that lull us into inaction on racial justice. White noise masks racial realities and prevents constructive responses to microaggressions, structural inequality, and overt interpersonal racism.



In this book, Francois calls people of all racial backgrounds to take up practices that overcome sil...