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For anyone interested in Northern liberalism and the Black freedom struggle, this is a must-read. Burgin's study of white anti-racist organizing in Detroit shows how groups of white Detroiters took up the Black Power imperative and challenged the structures of job discrimination, media bias, political power, and policing in the city. In the process, they denaturalized the racial prerogatives of Northern liberalism, showing it as set of personal and policy choices. * Jeanne Theoharis, author of A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History *

""For anyone interested in Northern liberalism and the Black freedom struggle, this is a must-read. Burgin's study of white anti-racist organizing in Detroit shows how groups of white Detroiters took up the Black Power imperative and challenged the structures of job discrimination, media bias, political power, and policing in the city. In the process, they denaturalized the racial prerogatives of Northern liberalism, showing it as set of personal and policy choices."" * Jeanne Theoharis, author of A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History * ""Few have explored how white allies worked in solidarity with Black Power activists to develop campaigns parallel to their Black comrades’ organizing. No book has gathered their stories together and developed a coherent analysis of their diverse politics and activism like Organizing Your Own. As white allies wonder how they can best work in solidarity with struggles for Black Freedom today, the larger questions that Say Burgin asks remain urgent. How, she wonders, might we learn from these activists’ successes and challenges?"" * Karen Miller, author of Managing Inequality: Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit *

"""For anyone interested in Northern liberalism and the Black freedom struggle, this is a must-read. Burgin's study of white anti-racist organizing in Detroit shows how groups of white Detroiters took up the Black Power imperative and challenged the structures of job discrimination, media bias, political power, and policing in the city. In the process, they denaturalized the racial prerogatives of Northern liberalism, showing it as set of personal and policy choices."" * Jeanne Theoharis, author of A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History * ""Few have explored how white allies worked in solidarity with Black Power activists to develop campaigns parallel to their Black comrades’ organizing. No book has gathered their stories together and developed a coherent analysis of their diverse politics and activism like Organizing Your Own. As white allies wonder how they can best work in solidarity with struggles for Black Freedom today, the larger questions that Say Burgin asks remain urgent. How, she wonders, might we learn from these activists’ successes and challenges?"" * Karen Miller, author of Managing Inequality: Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit *"

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Say Burgin is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Dickinson College.

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