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A look back from a future in which racism is no more-inspiring us to start taking positive action today"It's the year 2050... and racism has ended." Could this really be our future? If so, what has to happen now to achieve such a radical change? In How We Ended Racism, Justin Michael Williams and Shelly Tygielski reveal a path for real and lasting global impact-not just talking about it, studying it, or making small steps, but actually ending racism in one generation.Williams and Tygielski draw from a wide array of scientific studies, as well as their practical successes in teaching a multitude of diverse groups across perceived "divides," to show us how to shift our perspective and enact lasting change in our families, workplaces, communities, and beyond. Here they provide solid answers to the questions future generations will ask about this pivotal time in history, by laying out the eight conditions that needed to arise in humanity to realize this possibility, covering: . How was it possible? The research on large-scale social change that showed racism could end. What were the first steps? Overcoming doubt, owning our emotions, and committing to truth. What were the biggest challenges? Shadow work, big conversations, and forgiveness. Which tools actually worked? The field-tested methods that allowed us to heal and connect. Who ended racism? How we-each of us-helped our culture evolve to make racism a thing of the past"You don't fix racism," say the authors. "You don't fight it. You don't make it better. You end it. We learned how to bridge any political or ideological divide-inviting liberals, conservatives, and everyone in between to cocreate a future worth fighting for." Here is a guide that dares to envision a world beyond typical diversity, equity, and inclusion work while providing tools and action steps to create a liberated future-so that our descendants can look back at this era as the time when we decided to end racism for the good of all.

RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'I couldn't put it down. . . an important book, raw and simple enough that you can't help but feel it deeply' James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd's LifeTalented and ambitious, Monica Potts and her best friend, Darci, were both determined to make something of themselves. How did their lives turn out so different? Growing up gifted and working-class in the foothills of the Ozarks, Monica and Darci became fast friends. Bonding over a shared love of learning, they pored over the giant map in their classroom, tracing their fingers over the world that awaited them, vowing to escape their broken town. In the end, Monica left Clinton for university and fulfilled her dreams. Darci, along with many in their circle of friends, did not. Years later, working as a journalist covering poverty, Monica discovers what she already intuitively knew about the women in Arkansas. Their life expectancy had steeply declined -- the sharpest such fall in a century. As she returns to Clinton to report the story, she reconnects with Darci, and finds that her once talented and ambitious best friend is now a statistic: a single mother of two, addicted to meth, jobless and nearly homeless. Deeply aware that Darci's fate could have been hers, she retraces the moments in each of their lives that led such similar women toward such different destinies. Why did Monica make it out while Darci became ensnared in a cycle of poverty and opioid abuse? Gripping and unforgettable, The Forgotten Girls is a story of friendship and lost promise in 21st century America.

A no-holds-barred guidebook aimed at white women who want to stop being nice and start dismantling white supremacy.It's no secret that white women are conditioned to be "nice," but did you know that the desire to be perfect and to avoid conflict at all costs are characteristics of white supremacy culture? As the founders of Race2Dinner, an organization which facilitates conversations between white women about racism and white supremacy, Regina Jackson and Saira Rao have noticed white women's tendency to maintain a veneer of niceness, and strive for perfection, even at the expense of anti-racism work. In this book, Jackson and Rao pose these urgent questions: how has being "nice" helped Black women, Indigenous women and other women of color? How has being "nice" helped you in your quest to end sexism? Has being "nice" earned you economic parity with white men? Beginning with freeing white women from this oppressive need to be nice, they deconstruct and analyze nine aspects of traditional white woman behavior--from tone-policing to weaponizing tears--that uphold white supremacy society, and hurt all of us who are trying to live a freer, more equitable life. White Women is a call to action to those of you who are looking to take the next steps in dismantling white supremacy. Your white supremacy. If you are in fact doing real anti-racism work, you will find few reasons to be nice, as other white people want to limit your membership in the club. If you are not ticking white people off on a regular basis, you are not doing it right.

First published in 1967, Ernest Cole's House of Bondage has been lauded as one of the most significant photobooks of the twentieth century, revealing the horrors of apartheid to the world for the first time and influencing generations of photographers around the globe. Reissued for contemporary audiences, this edition adds a chapter of unpublished work found in a recently resurfaced cache of negatives and recontextualizes this pivotal book for our time. Cole, a Black South African man, photographed the underbelly of apartheid in the 1950s and '60s, often at great personal risk. He methodically captured the myriad forms of violence embedded in everyday life for the Black majority under the apartheid system-picturing its miners, its police, its hospitals, its schools. In 1966, Cole fled South Africa and smuggled out his negatives; House of Bondage was published the following year with his writings and first-person account. This edition retains the powerful story of the original while adding new perspectives on Cole's life and the legacy of House of Bondage. It also features an added chapter-compiled and titled "Black Ingenuity" by Cole-of never-before-seen photographs of Black creative expression and cultural activity taking place under apartheid. Made available again nearly fifty-five years later, House of Bondage remains a visually powerful and politically incisive document of the apartheid era.

'One of the most important and timely books I've had the privilege to read' Corinne Fowler, author of Green Unpleasant LandA revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic world To fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the flawed way that it ended. We celebrate abolition - in Haiti after the revolution, in the British Empire in 1833, in the United States during the Civil War. Yet in Black Ghost of Empire, acclaimed historian Kris Manjapra argues that during each of these supposed emancipations, Black people were dispossessed by the moves that were meant to free them. Emancipation, in other words, simply codified the existing racial caste system - rather than obliterating it. Ranging across the Americas, Europe and Africa, Manjapra unearths disturbing truths about the Age of Emancipations, 1780-1880. In Britain, reparations were given to wealthy slaveowners, not the enslaved, a vast debt that was only paid off in 2015, and the crucial role of Black abolitionists and rebellions in bringing an end to slavery has been overlooked. In Jamaica, Black people were liberated only to enter into an apprenticeship period harsher than slavery itself. In the American South, the formerly enslaved were 'freed' into a system of white supremacy and racial terror. Across Africa, emancipation served as an alibi for colonization. None of these emancipations involved atonement by the enslavers and their governments for wrongs committed, or reparative justice for the formerly enslaved-an omission that grassroots Black organizers and activists are rightly seeking to address today. Black Ghost of Empire will rewire readers' understanding of the world in which we live. Paradigm-shifting, lucid and courageous, this book shines a light into the enigma of slavery's supposed death, and its afterlives.

The British comedian of Nigerian heritage and co-executive producer and writer of the CBS hit series Bob Hearts Abishola chronicles her odyssey to get to America and break into Hollywood in this lively and humorous memoir.According to family superstition, Gina Yashere was born to fulfil the dreams of her grandmother Patience. The powerful first wife of a wealthy businessman, Patience was poisoned by her jealous sister-wives and marked with a spot on her neck. From birth, Gina carried a similar birthmark - a sign that she was her grandmother's chosen heir, and would fulfil Patience's dreams. Gina would learn to speak perfect English, live unfettered by men or children, work a man's job, and travel the world with a free spirit.Is she the reincarnation of her grandmother? Maybe. Gina isn't ruling anything out. In Cack-Handed, she recalls her intergenerational journey to success foretold by her grandmother and fulfilled thousands of miles from home. This hilarious memoir tells the story of how from growing up as a child of Nigerian immigrants in working class London, running from skinheads, and her overprotective mum, Gina went on to become the first female engineer with the UK branch of Otis, the largest elevator company in the world, where she went through a baptism of fire from her racist and sexist co-workers. Not believing her life was difficult enough, she later left engineering to become a stand up comic, appearing on numerous television shows and becoming one of the top comedians in the UK, before giving it all up to move to the US, a dream she'd had since she was six years old, watching American kids on television, riding cool bicycles, and solving crimes.A collection of eccentric, addictive, and uproarious stories that combine family, race, gender, class, and country, Cack-Handed reveals how Gina's unconventional upbringing became the foundation of her successful career as an international comedian.

"Man får ikke en egentlig systematisk analyse af raceproblemer i USA i ’Et spørgsmål om race’, men man får suveræne fortolkninger, imponerende selvkritik, eminente indsigter og en fornem opvisning i, hvordan man faktisk kan anerkende den sociale virkeligheds kompleksitet og stadig skrive på fordringen om at kæmpe for det gode, søge sandheden og forsøge at hjælpe alle i deres kampe for at gøre verden til et bedre sted." - fra Rune Lykkebergs forordEt spørgsmål om race udkom i USA i 1993 og blev straks en bestseller. Næsten 30 år senere er det stadig en af de mest originale bøger om racisme, kapitalisme og imperialisme. Bogen er første titel i Informations Forlags nye bogserie Antiracistiske klassikere. Cornel West (f. 1953) er professor, forfatter, politisk aktivist og er en af de vigtigste venstreorienterede intellektuelle i USA. Han har skrevet adskillige bøger om race, kapitalisme, demokrati og filosofi. Med Et spørgsmål om race udkommer han for første gang på dansk.

Sorte mennesker er ikke bedre til at løbe langt eller hurtigt end hvide mennesker. Hvide mennesker er ikke mere intelligente end sorte. Østasiatiske studerende er ikke naturligt bedre til matematik, jøder har ikke et medfødt talent for penge, og din hudfarve fortæller ikke noget om, hvilken race du tilhører.Disse og mange andre stereotyper og myter om race er netop de fundamenter, strukturel racisme hviler på.Bogen her giver et videnskabeligt blik på, hvad moderne genetik kan og ikke kan fortælle os om menneskelig forskellighed. Videnskaben er historisk set blevet brugt som et værktøj til at institutionalisere racismen, men i denne bog forsøger Rutherford at vise, hvordan videnskaben kan og bør bruges som et antiracistisk værktøj.Videnskabelige argumenter mod racisme er et våben til at afmontere pseudovidenskabelige ideer om, at de forskelle, der er mellem os mennesker som individer, kan sige noget om os mennesker som større grupper. Et våben mod racisme.Hvad vores gener siger (og ikke siger)om forskelle mellem mennesker

”En smuk hyldest til et fantastisk kønsorgan. En lille kussologi fuld af poesi og nyttig viden”. - Christian Graugaard, professor i sexologi ”Denne bog rydder én gang for alle op i de mange myter og misforståelser der, trods oplysning og færre tabuer, stadig findes omkring vulva og vagina.“ - Karina Lins, psykolog og parterapeut, forfatter til ‘Samtalen om sex’. Den lille bog om …udforsker det mest sagnomspundne kønsorgans mange steder og muligheder. Den er en visuel hyldest, der navngiver og inspirerer, tegner og fortæller.

Op mod 7 procent af en ungdomsårgang begynder voksen livet uden at være i uddannelse eller have en stabil tilknytning tilarbejdsmarkedet. En stor andel af disse unge vil fortsætte uden arbejde og uddannelse som voksne.Et liv på kanten af samfundet giver først og fremmest en socialt og materielt set fattigere tilværelse for den enkelte. Men deter også forbundet med store økonomiske omkostninger for fællesskabet i form af tabte skatteindtægter og øgede udgiftertil overførselsindkomster. Udsatte unge er derfor en af de helt store udfordringer for et socialt og økonomisk bæredygtigt velfærdssamfund.ROCKWOOL Fonden styrker gennem forskning og sociale interventioner vores viden om de udsatte unge. Det sker bl.a. gennemanalyser af deres baggrund og livssituation, hvilket netop er temaet i denne anden udgivelse på Gyldendal med en lettilgængelig præsentation af den løbende forskning i emnet.I bogen analyseres betydningen af sociale begivenheder fx i form af forældres skilsmisse eller af et liv i en familie med lavindkomst for den senere eksponering for udsathed. Måske er indretningen af arbejdsmarkedet et problem i sig selv, hvilkettages op i bogen. Andre kapitler analyserer, hvem de udsatte unge konkurrerer med på arbejdsmarkedet, og hvilken økonomiskgevinst, de unge kan se frem til, hvis de tager en uddannelse.

Hvorfor er der ikke flere kvinder i toppen af et af verdens mest ligestillede samfund?Sarah Steinitz, ekspert i magt og magtfordeling, giver i denne bog spørgsmålet videre til fire af Danmarks mest indflydelsesrige kvinder. Fire kvinder, der fra hver sit udsigtspunkt på toppen af samfundspyramiden taler med stor vægt og erfaring i bagagen. Merete Eldrup, bestyrelsesformand for bl.a. Nykredit og Københavns Universitet. Lizette Risgaard, formand for Fagbevægelsens Hovedorganisation og forhandlingsleder for 1,4 millioner danske lønmodtagere. Karen Hækkerup, tidligere minister og direktør i Landbrug og Fødevarer, nu generalsekretær i Unicef. Mai-Britt Poulsen, managing director, senior partner og global chief of staff i et af verdens største konsulenthuse, Boston Consulting Group.De fire magtfulde kvinder mødtes i sommeren 2020 for at tale om deres karriereveje. Om valg og fravalg i livet, forestillinger og fordomme, oplevelser og overvejelser. Og om hvordan fremtiden kan komme til at se ud for kvinder, der har talent og knokler for at gøre karriere.Den indsigtsfulde og inspirerende samtale, der kom ud af møderne, kan du opleve i bogen her. Hvad enten du er ung kvinde i starten af din karriere, ældre mand på toppen af din karriere eller et sted midtimellem, kan du tage bogens pointer med dig.

BOGEN om THE MENTAL LOADHvad gør man, når ens mand ikke ser børnenes behov? Hvad gør man, når han ikke ved, hvornår der skal købes vinterstøvler eller har styr på kalenderen? Hvad gør man, når man elsker ham og ikke har nogle intentioner om at gå fra ham, men er bitter og vred det meste af tiden? Og hvad med den manglende sexlyst?I Danmark bruger kvinder i gennemsnit en time mere end deres mænd på husholdningsarbejde, hver dag. Og oveni er der en lang række usynlige arbejdsopgaver, som ikke måles. Meget forskning peger på, at det ikke handler om, at kvinden går mere op i at holde hus og derfor får ansvar for hjemmet. Men hvad handler det så om?I bogen "Mental Load & ligestilling" får du en konkret forklaring på, hvad The Mental Load er, så det bliver nemmere at ligestille arbejdsfordelingen hjemme hos dig. Derudover får du indsigt i, hvad det koster for begge parter ikke at være ligestillede i hjemmene. For overraskende nok er det ikke kun kvinder, der betaler en pris for den skæve byrdefordeling. Både mænd og kvinder taber livskvalitet på ikke at deles om The Mental Load. Cathrine Katzmann er parterapeut, sexolog og debattør. Hun har arbejdet med The Mental Load i flere år. Både som parterapeut og i sine onlinekurser hjælper hun par med at få mere balance i familielivet. Følg hende på Instagram under @parterapeutens_dagbogLaura Vilsgaard er cand.comm. med et ben solidt plantet i sociologien. Hun har i de seneste 10 år beskæftiget sig med de eksistentielle livskriser, som forældreskab afstedkommer, bl.a. akademisk og i podcasten "Jegermor".

Fields of Fire: Emancipation and Resistance in Colombia identifies the concept of the emancipatory network as a coordination of loose, discrete, and differentiated actors to explain how activists successfully practice high-risk activism. Illustrating that previous studies on high-risk activism come to contradictory conclusions, Fields of Fire argues that networks rather than individual characteristics are associated with mobilization. This book features unique ethnographic material of a Colombian sugarcane worker strike, interviews with workers and human rights activists in Valle del Cauca and Bogotá reveal different forms of knowledge that activists bring to a social movement. Esparza argues that the combination of these different forms of knowledge bolsters the movement's resiliency in the face of repression.

A searing portrait of young Black people's day-to-day lives growing up in marginalized communities--and how to help.In underserved communities across the United States, violence, food insecurity, unstable housing, lead poisoning, and other factors such as racist redlining policies negatively impact young people's everyday experiences--and their futures. What opportunities are available to young Black people living in these neighborhoods? What are their survival expectations? Who can they look to for support? In this searing portrait of today's youth, Lorece V. Edwards offers a thought-provoking and timely account of the day-to-day experience of living in America's neglected neighborhoods. Edwards examines the reality of growing up Black in marginalized communities and provides a nuanced, systems-level perspective of the daily lives of these youths. Many of the practices for which these young people are demonized are simply survival strategies. Structural violence plays a key role in their opportunities to be successful. Using Baltimore as a case study, Edwards examines the historical roots of how these neighborhoods developed, from the detrimental impacts of historical redlining policies during the 1930s to continued disinvestment in Black communities today. The narrative is enriched through the poignant, firsthand accounts of youth who live in these neighborhoods. Incorporating the results of longitudinal research projects focused on sexual health, substance use, communicable diseases, and decision-making among minority youth residing in the inner city, Edwards provides recommendations for how to address systemic issues and change the trajectory of these children's futures.

"This work is a history of slavery, capitalism, and the law that not only reframes how we understand the commodification of enslaved people, but also makes a significant methodological and moral argument for how historians should seek to make sense of the lived experiences of enslaved people in the antebellum United States"--

How a coalition of Black health professions schools made health equity a national issue.Racism in the US health care system has been deliberately undermining Black health care professionals and exacerbating health disparities among Black Americans for centuries. These health disparities only became a mainstream issue on the agenda of US health leaders and policy makers because a group of health professions schools at Historically Black Colleges and Universities banded together to fight for health equity. We'll Fight It Out Here tells the story of how the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools (AMHPS) was founded by this coalition and the hard-won influence it built in American politics and health care. David Chanoff and Louis W. Sullivan, former secretary of health & human services, detail how the struggle for equity has been fought in the field of health care, where bias and disparities continue to be volatile national issues. Chanoff and Sullivan outline the history of Black health care, from pre-Emancipation to today, centering on the work of AMHPS, which brought to light health care inequities in 1983 and precipitated virtually all minority health care legislation since then. Based on extensive research in the literature, as well as more than seventy interviews with the people central to this fight for legislative and policy change, We'll Fight It Out Here is the important story of a vital coalition movement, virtually unknown until now, that changed the national understanding of health inequities.The work of this coalition of Black health schools continues, both in supporting the training of more doctors and health professionals from minority backgrounds and in advancing issues related to health equity. By highlighting these endeavors, We'll Fight It Out Here brings attention to a pivotal group in the history of the health equity movement and provides a road map of practical mechanisms that can be used to advance it.

Explores a wide range of social problems in the UK using a range of psychosocial theories to generate an understanding of various causal factors and to examine the linkages between different social problems. Government policy and legislation, remedial measures, preventive approaches, and strategies of intervention are also considered.

Featuring chapters written by interdisciplinary scholars, Anti-Black Racism in Contemporary America helps readers identify anti-Black racism and internalized White cultural practices, processes, and procedures that cause harm to Black individuals and African Americans. The opening chapter addresses societal racism and explores how it causes institutional racial disparities across various systems. Additional chapters propose a more racially appropriate framework for educating Black children; examine protests of Black male and female athletes and the effects of racism on sport at all levels; and address the disempowerment of Black people in the election process. The book addresses the counseling process with Black clients, speaks to the right of Black parents to raise their children, and underscores the importance of protecting the integrity of Black families. Anti-Black Racism in Contemporary America is part of the Cognella Series on Advances in Culture, Race, and Ethnicity. The series, co-sponsored by Division 45 of the American Psychological Association, addresses critical and emerging issues within culture, race, and ethnic studies, as well as specific topics among key multicultural groups.

"The first book to tell the full story of race and health in America today, showing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation, by a groundbreaking journalist at the New York Times Magazine"--

Only For the Brave at Heart is a collection of essays about discrimination and race.

An honest confrontation of systemic racism in faculty hiring-and what to do about itWhile colleges and universities have been lauded for increasing student diversity, these same institutions have failed to achieve any comparable diversity among their faculty. In 2017, of the nation's full-time, tenure-track and tenured faculty, only 3 percent each were Black men, Black women, Hispanic men, and Hispanic women. Only 6 percent were Asian/Pacific Islander men, 5 percent were Asian/Pacific Islander women, and 1 percent were American Indian/Alaska Native. Why are the numbers so abysmal? In Doing the Right Thing, Marybeth Gasman takes a hard, insightful look at the issues surrounding the recruitment and hiring of faculty of color. Relying on national data and interviews with provosts, deans, and department chairs from sixty major universities, Gasman documents the institutional forces stymieing faculty diversification, and she makes the case for how such deficiencies can and should be rectified.Even as institutions publicly champion inclusive excellence and the number of doctoral students of color increases, Gasman reveals the entrenched constraints contributing to the faculty status quo. Impediments to progress include the alleged trade-off between quality and diversity, the power of pedigree, the rigidity of academic pipelines, failures of administrative leadership, lack of accountability among administration and faculty, and the opacity and arbitrariness of the recruitment and hiring process. Gasman contends that leaders must acknowledge institutional failures of inclusion, pervasive systemic racism, and biases that restrict people of color from pursuing faculty careers.Recognizing that individuals from all backgrounds are essential to the creation and teaching of knowledge, Doing the Right Thing puts forth a concrete call for colleges and universities to take action and do better.

Architecture is at a tipping point. Voices of the under-represented have been increasing in volume and are agitated for change. If we don't collectively listen, re-adjust and change our future outlook, we limit the potential relevance of the profession in today's society and, ultimately, the places we create.

I KVINDSMOD deler syv inspirerende kvinder deres stærke personlige historier. På hver deres måde og med hver deres baggrund har de valgt at sætte sig selv og deres liv på spil for at gøre en forskel i verden. De har mødt modgang, tvivl, svigt og frygt, men de har hver især fundet deres indre styrke og helt egen stemme. Samtidig har de brudt med forventninger til, hvordan kvinder skal agere, se ud, lede, elske og leve. I bogen fortæller de ærligt om de oplevelser, der har været med til at forme dem. Anabel Hernández trodser narkobaroner. Claudia Paz y Paz tager opgør med vold. Kasha Nabagesera kæmper for LGBT+-rettigheder. Marinel Sumook Ubaldo er klimaaktivist. Masih Alinejad står op mod undertrykkelse. Sarah McBride møder had som transkønnet politiker. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya går imod en diktator.

This one-of-a-kind guide explores the impact of systematic oppression, colonisation, generational trauma, and individual trauma for people in the Latinx community. It guides the reader on a journey of understanding, healing, and empowerment for them and their communities, and includes reflective questions and healing exercises.

Sometimes generally referred to as "the nones," agnostics, atheists, humanists, freethinkers, secularists and skeptics compose one of the fastest growing faith categories in the United States. Because they are treated as "nones," some people face discrimination as nonbelievers, despite their varied and strong beliefs, values and morals. This basic guide, "100 Questions and Answers About the Religiously Unaffiliated," describes the differences, explains why discrimination and laws force some to hide their beliefs and why they would like to shed the label of "nones." Religious freedom and the First Amendment's establishment clause come up frequently.The key issue for many is whether the First Amendment's guarantee of religious freedom also guarantees the right to be free from religion.Legal issues include school prayer, the obligation to support tax-exempt religious properties and requirements that people profess belief in God to be allowed to vote or hold office.Life magazine called Madalyn Murray O'Hair, whose lawsuit ended mandatory prayer in public schools, "the most hated woman in America." The Secular Coalition for America's website directory withheld the name of its communications consultant because "unwarranted prejudices and discriminatory practices ... affect atheists and humanists. Consequently, s/he felt it was best to be incognito for now, since working for an organization that protects the rights of nontheists might result in lost opportunities with other clients."In this guide's forward, Dr. Phil Zuckerman writes, "Understanding secular people is important for many reasons. For one thing, secular movements, leaders, values and ideals play significant roles in the political landscapes of the world. From the first sentence of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, to Article 20 of Japan's Constitution, from France's laïcité to Vietnam's atheistic dictatorship, and from the founding of the Mexican Republic to India's current political struggles, in many countries secularism is a central pillar of both stability as well as conflict."Additionally, secular men and women are often unjustly stigmatized as immoral scoundrels or angry curmudgeons - negative stereotypes that don't actually accord with reality yet prove to be both persistent and pernicious. For instance, in some societies, such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Malaysia, hatred and fear of the secular is so strong that those who don't believe in God can be imprisoned, tortured or even executed. Here in the United States, many state constitutions - such as those of Tennessee, Texas and Mississippi - currently outlaw anyone who doesn't believe in God from holding any publicly elected office."Dr. Morgan Shipley's introduction says, "For the more than 85 million Americans who identify as nonreligious, we witness a turn to secularization as both an explanation for the lack of belief and a source for fulfilling the areas of life commonly associated with religion, such as morality, togetherness and agency. For the nonreligious, then, we find more than a rejection of God and faith. Instead, we uncover various ways humans highlight virtue, pursue a sense of belongingness, celebrate progress and rely on rational discourse to construct meaningful and morally driven lives." Questions include:Who are "the nones?"Who is under the umbrella of the nonreligious?What is an atheist?Who are agnostics?What is secularism? Who are humanists?Who are freethinkers?What is irreligion?Are Pagans and Wiccans nonreligious?What does it mean to be spiritual but not religious?What values do nonreligious people hold? How does one respectfully console a nonreligious person?Do nonreligious people pray?