How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

How to Be an Antiracist

by Ibram X. Kendi

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There's no neutral ground called not racist, in Ibram X. Kendi's account. Policies produce inequity or equity, and your job is to find and change them, a test he turns on himself, recalling that "anti-Black racist ideas covered my freshman eyes like my orange contacts."

Core ideas
  • Policy, not inferiority: Gaps in wealth and health come from racist policy, backed by racist ideas, rather than from any group's inferiority.
  • Anyone can hold it: People of any race can hold racist ideas, and chapters built one concept at a time connect race to gender, sexuality and class.
  • The memoir strand: A high school Martin Luther King Jr. speech contest and his later cancer diagnosis run through the argument alongside his old beliefs.
Published2019
Pages305
ISBN9780525509288
ReadJan 2021

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