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My passion has always been engaging with children, and I have learned one of the best ways to do that, is with a book.

About My books

The Liabilities of Whiteness: How Whiteness Hurts White People and How We Regain Our Humanity

This book challenges the dominant framing of whiteness as a “privilege” alone and instead asks a deeper question: What has whiteness cost us? What parts of our humanity—our capacity for truth, relationship, belonging, accountability, and love—have been sacrificed to uphold it?

Structured for both individual reflection and collective use, each chapter includes guided questions, practices, and calls to action designed to support readers in moving beyond guilt or defensiveness toward responsibility, repair, and sustained engagement.

Liabilities of Whiteness is not a book about becoming a “better” white person.

It is a book about becoming human again—and understanding why the dismantling of whiteness is essential not only for justice, but for our shared survival.

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The Skin on My Chin

My first children's book is titled, "The Skin on My Chin" and is a fun rhyming picture book that children, ages 2 to 12 and you, will enjoy. This book was written as a tool for parents and teachers to engage in conversations about skin color, melanin, ancestry, diversity, race, stereotypes and prejudice. The author aims to foster an awareness of the importance of teaching children the benefits of diversity and of being a global citizen.

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The Story of METCO

The Story of METCO, is my second children's book written to tell the history of the Massachusetts METCO program, the 2nd longest running voluntary school integration program in the country. .

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I AM YOU ARE

"I am You are," is my third book and was created to celebrate the wonder, beauty and grace of boys, who may identify as Black and mixed race. My hope is that with more positive images and attributes we express to ourselves and to each other, we will diminish the impact of demeaning stereotypes on our beautiful boys.

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Vitamin D and Me - How Humans Outsmarted the Sun

This book is the amazing story of how and why human beings have different color skin tones. From dark brown to light, human beings and our evolution have an amazing story to tell and it's all here for you to learn and share.

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Liabilities of Whiteness

Liabilities of Whiteness- #1 Whiteness Racializes Us to Believe We are Superior.

Whiteness Racializes Us to Believe We are Superior. This is the 1st liability of whiteness and part of my new book, "Liabilities of Whiteness," that is available on my website www.michellechalmers.comsiness here.

Liabilities of Whiteness-#2 Whiteness Tells Us We Are Entitled and Deserving

The lie of white superiority doesn’t stop at “I’m better.” It grows into something even more corrosive: I deserve more. Whiteness doesn’t just place white people at the center, it trains us to believe that our needs, our feelings, our perspective, and our comfort should be prioritized above all else. Superiority becomes entitlement. Entitlement becomes expectation. And expectation becomes a reflex so deeply ingrained, we hardly ever see it for what it is.

Liabilities of Whiteness- #3 Whiteness Allows Us to Believe Things That Are Not Real

Whiteness trained me to accept falsehoods as truth, especially the lie that race is a biological fact rather than a social invention. And when your worldview is built on something unreal, your relationships, your assumptions, your empathy, and your identity all get built on sand.

Welcome Everyone! Thank you for connecting with me.

My passion has always been engaging with children, and I have learned one of the best ways to do that, is with a book.

Liabilities of Whiteness

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