What is the importance and impact of a multicultural upbringing? What is conditional whiteness and what role does it play in the lives of people with multiple racial identities?

In this series on healthcare and social disparities, Dr. Jill Wener, a board-certified Internal Medicine specialist, meditation expert, and tapping practitioner, interviews experts and gives her own insights into multiple fields relating to social justice and anti-racism. In this episode, Jill interviews Kelly Hurst, an anti-racist disruptor and equity strategist. They discuss the importance of being vulnerable and naming mistakes or the ways one has perpetuated systemic racism in order to dismantle it. Hurst explains how dominant culture paved the way for white women to become a danger to society and how it affects people who “look white” being included or excluded from the concept of conditional whiteness.

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After spending 23 years in the public education system as a teacher, literacy coach, guidance dean, and assistant principal, Kelly witnessed firsthand how the system helped white students thrive while continuing to marginalize Black students. As a result, Kelly left the education system and started Being Black at School. Kelly is best known as the author of the award-winning blog Mocha Momma, where she chronicles her life as a former teen parent, a birth mom, and a single mother who took her then 3-year old daughter to college with her. Kelly will serve as the founder and executive officer of Being Black at School.

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Instagram: @mochamomma & @beingblackas www.beingblackatschool.org

Books Mentioned: Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen

Waking Up White: and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving

Hands on the Freedom Plow : Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC by Faith S. Holsaert and Martha Prescod Norman Noonan and Judy Richardson

Stamped from the Beginning : The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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