# 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the National Book Award– winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “cutting-edge” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society– and in ourselves. “The most courageous book to date on the issue of race in the Western mind.”– The New York City Times NAMED AMONG THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review – Time – NPR – The Washington Post – Shelf Awareness – Library Journal – Publishers Weekly – Kirkus Reviews Antiracism is a transformative idea that reorients and reenergizes the discussion about bigotry– and, much more basically, points us toward liberating brand-new methods of thinking about ourselves and each other. At its core, bigotry is an effective system that creates false hierarchies of human worth; its deformed logic extends beyond race, from the method we concern individuals of different ethnic backgrounds or skin colors to the method we deal with individuals of various sexes, gender identities, and physique. Racism intersects with class and culture and geography and even alters the way we see and value ourselves. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes readers through an expanding circle of antiracist ideas– from one of the most fundamental concepts to visionary possibilities– that will help readers see all kinds of racism clearly, understand their poisonous effects, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves. Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism. This is a vital work for anyone who wants to surpass the awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a simply and fair society. Praise for How to Be an Antiracist “Ibram X. Kendi’s brand-new book, How to Be an Antiracist, could not come at a much better time … Kendi has gifted us with a book that is not just a vital instruction manual but also a narrative of the author’s own path from anti-black racism to anti-white bigotry and, lastly, to antiracism … How to Be an Antiracist provides us a clear and compelling method to method, as Kendi puts it in his introduction, ‘the standard struggle we’re all in, the battle to be totally human and to see that others are completely human.’ “– NPR “Kendi dissects why in a society where so few individuals consider themselves to be racist the divisions and inequalities of bigotry stay so common. How to Be an Antiracist punctures the myths of a post-racial America, analyzing what racism truly is– and what we must do about it.”– Time
Sunday, November 1, 2020
How to Be an Antiracist
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