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. The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it-and then
dismantle it. 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 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
equitable society. Advance praise for How to Be an Antiracist This latest from the National
Book Award-winning author is no guidebook to getting woke. . . . Rather it is a combination of
memoir and extension of . . . Kendi's towering Stamped From the Beginning that leads readers
through a taxonomy of racist thought to anti-racist action. . . . Never wavering . . . Kendi
methodically examines racism through numerous lenses: power biology ethnicity body culture
and so forth. . . . If Kendi is justifiably hard on America he's just as hard on himself. . .
. This unsparing honesty helps readers both white and people of color navigate this difficult
intellectual territory. Not an easy read but an essential one.-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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
