How To Be an Antiracist
THE GLOBAL MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER
Published on 15. August 2019
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-84792-599-2 (ISBN)
Description
**THE GLOBAL MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER**
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
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
Reviews / Votes
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 -- Colin Grant * 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 * An electrifying combination of ethics, history, law and science, bringing it all together with an engaging personal narrative ... an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond an awareness of racism to the next step * The Voice * One of the US's most respected scholars of race and history... Kendi's argument is brilliantly simple ... His honesty ... is one of the most powerful elements in this compelling book -- Afua Hirsch * Guardian * Gives us the tools to make changes in our own lives and society at large. A must-read -- June Sarpong, author of Diversify Makes clear how we all must engage in the essential soul-searching to understand our own racism and the personal action required to become antiracist -- Lord Herman Ouseley, former Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality and of Kick It Out This is no guidebook to getting woke ... Never wavering, Kendi methodically examines racism through numerous lenses: power, biology, ethnicity, body, culture, and so forth. This unsparing honesty helps readers, both white and people of colour, navigate this difficult intellectual territory. Essential * Kirkus * So vital. As a society, we need to start treating antiracism as action, not emotion - and Kendi is helping us do that -- Ijeoma Oluo, author of So You Want to Talk About Race No less than a road map for social change through a remarkable, personal and deeply touching journey. If you take the business of fighting oppression seriously and want to make a difference, this is something you need to read -- Leslie Thomas, QC One of the pre-eminent intellectuals on race -- Owen Jones Groundbreaking, brilliant, fearless -- David Olusoga (on Stamped from the Beginning) * Observer * You should read it for its arguments about what racism is. Nor should you dodge it on the basis that you knew all this already - like me, you almost certainly didn't -- David Aaronovitch (on Stamped from the Beginning) * The Times * Lucid, accessible, unyielding. Kendi's most important insight might help rethink anti-racist activism -- Sadiah Qureshi (on Stamped from the Beginning) * New Statesman * Bracingly original... Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America and-even more fundamentally-points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other * With Guitars * Everyone should have a copy of this important, poignant and timely book -- Christofere Fila * Amnest International UK * A work of immense moral authority, brilliantly told, it's deeply humane, revolutionary, essential -- Thomas Penn * History Today * An incredible book -- Gina Rubel * Techregister *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
437 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84792-599-2 (9781847925992)
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Ibram X. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is the author of many books including Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and three #1 New York Times bestsellers, How to Be an Antiracist, which was also a Sunday Times bestseller; Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, co-authored with Jason Reynolds; and Antiracist Baby, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky. In 2020, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.