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Winner of the 2024 Getting To We Words Create Worlds Award

In the vein of Think Again and Do Better a revolutionary welcome and urgent invitation Angela Duckworth 1 New York Times bestselling author to explore the emotional relationship we have with our countrys complicated and whitewashed history so that we can build a better future

As we grapple with news stories about our countrys racial fault lines our challenge is not just to learn about the past but also to cope with the belief grief that unlearning requires If you are on the emotional journey of reckoning with the past such as the massacre of Black Americans in Tulsa the killing of Native American children in compulsory residential schools designed to destroy their culture and the incarceration of Japanese Americans you are not alone The seeds of todays inequalities were sown in past events like these The time to unlearn the whitewashed history we believed was true is now

As historians share these truths we will need psychologists to help us navigate the shame guilt disbelief and despair many of us feel In A More Just Future Dolly Chugh awardwinning professor social psychologist and author of the acclaimed The Person You Mean to Be invites us to dismantle the systems built by our forebearers and work toward a more just future

Through heartrending personal histories and practical advice Chugh gives us the psychological tools we need to grapple with the truth of our country with one of the most moving and important behavioral science books of the last decade Katy Milkman author of How to Change