Radical Unlearning: The Art and Science of Creating Change from Within - Softcover

Wallace, Lewis Raven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807026212 ISBN 13: 9780807026212

Verlag: Beacon Press, 2026

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"An intimate text on how we really change, deep underneath it all. Give this book to everyone you love who is stuck in a heartbreaking worldview." —adrienne maree brown, author of Loving Corrections and Emergent Strategy

What if the beliefs shaping your life aren’t fixed—and you can change them?
In Radical Unlearning, journalist and activist Lewis Raven Wallace shows how even our most deeply ingrained biases and habits can be rewired.

Drawing on neuroscience and reporting, Wallace explains how neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to form new pathways, allows us to break old patterns and build new ways of thinking. Like well-worn footpaths, our habits of mind take shape over time, but with intention, we can create different routes.

Designed for readers ready to examine and challenge their assumptions, this book combines compelling storytelling with practical tools you can use right away, guided exercises and reflection prompts that help you actively engage in the process of change.

Through unforgettable real-world examples, Wallace reveals what transformation looks like in practice, including:

• A former white nationalist who becomes a transgender anti-racist organizer
• An ex-Israeli soldier who reexamines his beliefs and becomes an outspoken activist
• Wallace’s own grandmother, who confronts a lifetime of racism and transphobia in her 80s

At a time of deep division, Radical Unlearning offers a clear, actionable path forward. It’s a book for readers who want to think more critically, engage more thoughtfully, and contribute to meaningful change—starting with themselves.

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Lewis Raven Wallace (they/ze/he) is an award-winning independent journalist based in Durham, North Carolina. He's the author of The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity and the host of The View from Somewhere podcast. Lewis was the 2022-2024 Abolition Journalism Fellow with Interrupting Criminalization, a 2021 Ford Global Fellow, and a 2020 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. In 2019, he cofounded Press On, a Southern movement journalism collective. He is also a proud cofounder of Black and Pink Southwest Ohio, the Chicago Childcare Collective, and Riot Youth, Michigan’s first youth-run space for queer teens. When he’s not working, he plays the accordion, writes poetry, and spends time with his pitbull named Frankie and his potbellied pig, Dogwood Daffodil.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0807026212
• ISBN 13: 9780807026212
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264
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