#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the
Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” ( Time ) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and
inequality in our society and in ourselves —now updated with a new preface. “The most
courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.”— The New York Times ONE
OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR— The New York Times Book Review Time NPR The Washington Post
Shelf Awareness Library Journal Publishers Weekly Kirkus Reviews Antiracism is a
transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and even
more fundamentally points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each
other. At its core racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human value
its warped logic extends beyond race from the way we regard people of different ethnicities or
skin colors to the way we treat people of different sexes gender identities and body types.
Racism intersects with class and culture and geography and even changes the way we see and
value ourselves. In How to Be an Antiracist Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of
antiracist ideas—from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilities—that will help readers
see all forms of racism clearly understand their poisonous consequences and work to oppose
them in our systems and in ourselves. Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics
history law and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism. This is an
essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step:
contributing to the formation of a just and equitable society.
