Getting Over Ourselves is a book that has the potential to enable individual and social change. Rooted in the well-documented, but often ignored, realities of historic and contemporary White privilege and the cultural violence of racialised oppression, this book makes original and creative use of a breadth of religious and spiritual traditions and practices to identify a path to repentance, healing, and racial justice. Read this book if you’re looking for a thoughtful and practical guide to the need for personal, spiritual and social change.

Dr. Chris Shannahan

Associate Professor in Political Theology

Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations

Coventry University

With Getting Over Ourselves: A Handbook for Spiritual Healing of White Racism, Vajra Kilgour has made an important contribution to what has become in our time a largely disingenuous engagement with a dismal legacy which some seek to forget, others angrily deny, and many posit as a worthy aspiration with little or no practical content. Kilgour provides abundant insight directed towards those locked into modes of forgetfulness or outright denial. But she also provides the tools that move countering racism from mere aspiration to determined pursuit, a pursuit the difficulty of which she does not minimize but one which she recognizes as essential to healing in these aggrieved, mistrustful, anxious times. The practical wisdom embedded throughout this work is well worth the time of anyone seeking to move towards sustainable breakthroughs in our long and torturous engagement with race.

Dr. Robert Zuber

Director, Global Action to Prevent War and Armed Conflict