Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

Layla F. Saad is the New York Times best-selling author of Me and White Supremacy as well as a speaker, antiracism educator, and British social media personality. She is the host of the Good Ancestor Podcast and the founder of Good Ancestor Academy, which provides virtual classes on personal leadership and antiracism education. Her 28-day #MeAndWhiteSupremacy challenge began on Instagram, eventually evolving into a digital workbook entitled Me and White Supremacy (downloaded by 100,000 people) before it was published as a nonfiction book in 2020. She has been featured in Elle, PAPER, BBC Radio, Refinery29, goop, Forbes, and elsewhere. Saad and her family live in Doha, Qatar.

Saad serves as both the narrator and guide within the text, using a combination of personal anecdotes and experience, research, and social justice frameworks to navigate the 28-day challenge. Her identity as a Black Muslim woman born in the United Kingdom grounds her understanding of the complexities of white supremacy as well as the differences between white-dominated versus non-white dominated societies. Although she does not, and has not, lived in the United States, she aims much of the work towards Americans who, given the rise in incidents of racism as well as awareness of police brutality in the 2010s, have begun to seek antiracist education and training.