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EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ THIS BOOK!!!!
"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 together an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, ...more
"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 together an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, ...more
Great food for thinking, though not always easy to understand. Though the author is reading the audiobook himself, it seems a bit boring to me.
Excellent read. We are not living in a post-racial world. We never were. To ignore race in society is to ignore cancer in the body. You can't pretend or love and light it away. What I loved the most about How to Be an Antiracist is the definitions Ibram X. Kendi provides. Similarly to when bell hooks provided a definition of feminism in Feminism Is For Everybody, Kendi provides a definition of racism as "a marriage of racist policies and racist ideas that produces and normalizes racial inequitie
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Dennis McCrea
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For me a seminal effort to confront a topic I have known as a white man with white privilege since my birth in the early 60’s. Yet having the chance to grow up in and outside Lansing, MI and later Kansas City, MO and KS has provided me with much fodder to read and absorb Dr. Kendi’s thoughts and propositions. Chief for me amongst them is the summation he presents in chapter 17, ‘Success’, that “Policymakers and policies make societies and institutions, not the other way around. The United States
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"Any gospel that does not…speak to the issue of enslavement” and “injustice” and “inequality—any gospel that does not want to go where people are hungry and poverty-stricken and set them free in the name of Jesus Christ—is not the gospel."
“The opposite of racist isn't 'not racist.' It is 'anti-racist.' What's the difference? One endorses either the idea of a racial hierarchy as a racist, or racial equality as an anti-racist. One either believes problems are rooted in groups of people, as a racis ...more
“The opposite of racist isn't 'not racist.' It is 'anti-racist.' What's the difference? One endorses either the idea of a racial hierarchy as a racist, or racial equality as an anti-racist. One either believes problems are rooted in groups of people, as a racis ...more
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