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A radical new way to think about racism and an inspiring treatise for what to do about it from the Winner of the National Book Award 2016 and founding Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center.
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**
Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist.
In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, 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.
Author: Ibram X. Kendi
Paperback Published 23 May 2023 320 pages
Originally published in hardcover 15 August 2019
“The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.” NEW YORK TIMES
“Ibram Kendi is today's visionary in the enduring struggle for racial justice. In this personal and revelatory new work, he yet again holds up a transformative lens, challenging both mainstream and antiracist orthodoxy. He illuminates the foundations of racism in revolutionary new ways and I am consistently challenged and inspired by his analysis. How to Be An Antiracist offers us a necessary and critical way forward.” ROBIN DIANGELO, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHITE FRAGILITY
"Could hardly be more relevant ... it feels like a light switch being flicked on." OWEN JONES