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How To Be an Antiracist

byIbram X. Kendi

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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.

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

Owen Jones

About Ibram X. Kendi

Ibram X. Kendi is one of the world's foremost historians and leading antiracist scholars. He is Professor of History and the founding director of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Howard University; previously he was a professor at Boston University, where he founded the BU Centre for Antiracist research.

He is the author of many books, 11 of which have been New York Times bestseller and 3 of those No. 1 bestsellers – including Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas, which also won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and How To Be An Antiracist, which was also a Sunday Times bestseller. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, and in 2020 Time named Kendi one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
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  • Series: How To Be An Antiracist
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • ISBN: 9781529111828
  • Length: 400 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 24mm x 129mm
  • Weight: 277g
  • Price: £10.99
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