How To Be an Antiracist

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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

©2019 Ibram X. Kendi (P)2019 Penguin Audio

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

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