How To Be an Antiracist: THE GLOBAL MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER

Ibram X. Kendi

Aug 2019 · Random House

About this ebook

Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist.

*THE GLOBAL MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER - NOW REVISED AND UPDATED*

In HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST Ibram X. Kendi, one of the world's most influential scholars on racism, demolishes the idea of a post-racial society, punctures the myths and taboos that cloud our understanding of racism and presents a radically new approach to tackling it.

He shows how everyone is, at times, complicit in maintaining the structure of racism though we rarely realise it, and gives us the tools to identify and change those behaviours.

Uncompromising but essential, HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST sparked a new conversation about being antiracist around the world, showing that until we become part of the solution, we can only be part of the problem.

'Transformative and revolutionary' ROBIN DIANGELO, author of White Fragility
'So vital' IJEOMA OLUO, author of So You Want to Talk About Race
'It feels like a light switch being flicked on' OWEN JONES

Ratings and reviews

Changing the definition of racism, prejudice and other extremely sensitive words to bend to a narrative that white people are racist without themselves even knowing. Also a call for "racial equity" which is a leftist ideology and one that would make black votes more powerful than white ones.... basic racism.

I don't want to be an "anti-racist", I don't want to be an anti-anything. Any "anti" movement comes with feelings of hate, division and conflict. Instead, I want to be pro inclusive. I want to be pro loving and pro accepting of everyone for who they are. Unfortunately this is the problem with left ideology. They create even further divide and racism in society than what they are trying to solve. They deal in identity politics and guilt. Nowadays this nonsense is forcefully shoved down our throats by all media, including Google who have this trash high up in the recommended reading list.

Terrible, doesn't address inequalities in an unbiased manner at all. Being pushed in our faces though. Brainwashing.

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 Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and three #1 New York Times bestsellers, How to Be an Antiracist, which was also a Sunday Times bestseller; Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, co-authored with Jason Reynolds; and Antiracist Baby, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky. In 2020, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.