"How to Be an Antiracist" (video)

Barnesandnoble.com, guest author Ibram X. Kendi with Amy Goodman (democracynow.org, 8/13/19); Ashley Wells, Crystal Q., Seth Auberon, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

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From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a bracingly original book.

It is a new approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in American society—and in ourselves.

“The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it—and then dismantle it.”

Author Ibram X. Kendi’s concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America.

But even more fundamentally it points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other.

In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like and how we can play an active role in building it.

In this book Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science, bringing it all together with an engaging personal narrative of his own awakening to antiracism.

How to Be an Antiracist is essential reading for anyone who wants to go beyond an awareness of racism to the next step: creating a truly just and equitable society. More

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Praise for How to Be an Antiracist

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“This latest from the National Book Award-winning author is no guidebook to getting woke.... Rather, it is a combination of memoir and extension of...Kendi’s towering Stamped From the Beginning that leads readers through a taxonomy of racist thought to anti-racist action.... Never wavering...Kendi methodically examines racism through numerous lenses: power, biology, ethnicity, body, culture, and so forth.... If Kendi is justifiably hard on America, he’s just as hard on himself.... This unsparing honesty helps readers, both white and people of color, navigate this difficult intellectual territory. Not an easy read but an essential one.”

—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Ibram Kendi is today's visionary in the enduring struggle for racial justice. In this personal and revelatory new work, he yet again holds up a transformative lens, challenging both mainstream and antiracist orthodoxy. He illuminates the foundations of racism in revolutionary new ways, and I am consistently challenged and inspired by his analysis. How to Be an Antiracist offers us a necessary and critical way forward.”

—Robin DiAngelo, NY Times bestselling author of White Fragility