How To Be an Antiracist

Author Ibram X. Kendi
Narrator Ibram X. Kendi
Publisher Random House
Publish Date 1 January 1970
Run Time 10 hours and 29 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Human rights, civil rights, Political ideologies and movements, Politics and government, Racism and racial discrimination, Social and political philosophy, Social theory, Society and Social Sciences.

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NOT BEING RACIST IS NOT ENOUGH. WE HAVE TO BE ANTIRACIST.

'Transformative and revolutionary' ROBIN DIANGELO, author of White Fragility

'So vital' IJEOMA OLUO, author of So You Want to Talk About Race

In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, one of the world's most influential scholars of racism, shows that neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be part of the problem.

Using his extraordinary gifts as a teacher and story-teller, Kendi helps us recognise that everyone is, at times, complicit in racism whether they realise it or not, and by describing with moving humility his own journey from racism to antiracism, he shows us how instead to be a force for good. Along the way, Kendi punctures all the myths and taboos that so often cloud our understanding, from arguments about what race is and whether racial differences exist to the complications that arise when race intersects with ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality.

In the process he demolishes the myth of the post-racial society and builds from the ground up a vital new understanding of racism - what it is, where it is hidden, how to identify it and what to do about it.

'The most courageous book to date on the problem of race' New York Times

'It feels like a light switch being flicked on' OWEN JONES

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Critics Review

Could hardly be more relevant … it feels like a light switch being flicked on

Owen Jones

Transformative and revolutionary … offers us a necessary and critical way forward

Robin DiAngelo, author of White Fragility

The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind

New York Times

Vital… Whether you’re an institution … or an individual in moral paralysis, dumbfounded by the febrile emotions now at large … you are not alone; hope is on its way

Observer

Shocking and provocative … he uses his personal story to make his arguments so skilfully that the book is both a memoir and a strident call to arms

Irish Times

An electrifying combination of ethics, history, law and science, bringing it all together with an engaging personal narrative … an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond an awareness of racism to the next step

The Voice

One of the US’s most respected scholars of race and history… Kendi’s argument is brilliantly simple … His honesty … is one of the most powerful elements in this compelling book

Guardian

Gives us the tools to make changes in our own lives and society at large. A must-read

June Sarpong, author of Diversify

Makes clear how we all must engage in the essential soul-searching to understand our own racism and the personal action required to become antiracist

Lord Herman Ouseley, former Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality and of Kick It Out

This is no guidebook to getting woke … Never wavering, Kendi methodically examines racism through numerous lenses: power, biology, ethnicity, body, culture, and so forth. This unsparing honesty helps readers, both white and people of colour, navigate this difficult intellectual territory. Essential

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