Are you fed up with how people “talk” about race and racism? Are you scared that race is dividing us and blinding us to our shared humanity? Shanterra McBride and Rosalind Wiseman are too and they are determined to help change that by giving people the essential skills to change our most common conversations about race.

McBride and Wiseman, a Black woman and a white woman who have been friends and colleagues for over two decades, wrote Courageous Discomfort based on answering 20 common, uncomfortable-but-critical questions about racism they get asked most often.

There is no perfect solution or script for every maybe-racist, sort-of-racist, or blatantly-racist situation we can find ourselves in. But Courageous Discomfort is an empowering realistic guide that shows you how to handle whatever situation you find yourself in with skill, confidence, and dignity.