Antiracist Baby

Ibram X. Kendi

Jun 2020 · Sold by Penguin

About this eBook

A #1 New York Times Bestseller!

From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist comes a fresh new board book that empowers parents and children to uproot racism in our society and in ourselves.

Take your first steps with Antiracist Baby! Or rather, follow Antiracist Baby's nine easy steps for building a more equitable world.

With bold art and thoughtful yet playful text, Antiracist Baby introduces the youngest readers and the grown-ups in their lives to the concept and power of antiracism. Providing the language necessary to begin critical conversations at the earliest age, Antiracist Baby is the perfect gift for readers of all ages dedicated to forming a just society.

Featured in its own episode in the Netflix original show Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices, Good Morning America, NPR's Morning Edition, CBS This Morning, and more!

Ratings and reviews

This book is amazing 👏 children are not born racist they are taught to be racist so helping kids grasp this early on is amazing also to all those 1 star reviews that are saying " oH ThIS iS so RAciST" no its not, its anti racist and if you are really about being anti racist you wouldn't have a problem with this book those who hate this book you probably racist and not willing to exept it 😉. Also one last thing is this book includes all races and pushes for kids to shut down racist beliefs

I'm in a mixed race family and this book spoke truth to me. I love the line in it: "Babies are taught to be racist or antiracist--there's no neutrality." If you believe in color blindness, haven't experienced racism firsthand or haven't admitted your own racism, yes this book will make you uncomfortable.

It is a shame people are trying to profit off race-baiting. This isn't education, POC's deserve better.

About the author

Ibram X. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is the author of many books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller How to Be an Antiracist and the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which was remixed for young adult readers by Jason Reynolds into Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, and adapted into a graphic novel by cartoonist Joel Christian Gill. Dr. Kendi was awarded a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the “Genius Grant.” Find Dr. Kendi online @ibramxk on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter.

Ashley Lukashevsky is an illustrator and visual artist who uses illustration and art as a tool to strengthen social movements against systemic racism and sexism. Before moving to illustration full-time, she was the art director at KINDLAND and the social impact designer at LA2050, an initiative to create a positive shared future for all Angelenos. Learn more at her website http://www.ashleylukashevsky.com or follow her on Instagram @ASHLUKADRAWS.