Ibram X. Kendi

How to Be an Antiracist

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From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a bracingly original approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves.
Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America—but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it.
In this book, Kendi weaves together an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science, bringing it all together with an engaging personal narrative of his own awakening to antiracism. How to Be an Antiracist is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond an awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a truly just and…
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  • mariareadshas quoted2 years ago
    racism is one of the fastest-spreading and most fatal cancers humanity has ever known.
  • mariareadshas quoted2 years ago
    But if we ignore the odds and fight to create an antiracist world, then we give humanity a chance to one day survive, a chance to live in communion, a chance to be forever free.
  • mariareadshas quoted2 years ago
    nvent or find antiracist policy that can eliminate racial inequity.

    Figure out who or what group has the power to institute antiracist policy.

    Disseminate and educate about the uncovered racist policy and antiracist policy correctives.

    Work with sympathetic antiracist policymakers to institute the antiracist policy.

    Deploy antiracist power to compel or drive from power the unsympathetic racist policymakers in order to institute the antiracist policy.

    Monitor closely to ensure the antiracist policy reduces and eliminates racial inequity.

    When policies fail, do not blame the people. Start over and seek out new and more effective antiracist treatments until they work.

    Monitor closely to prevent new racist policies from being instituted.

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