How to Be an Antiracist (One World Essentials)

by Ibram X. Kendi

Some White people do not identify as White for the same reason they identify as not-racist: to avoid reckoning with the ways that Whiteness—even as a construction and mirage—has informed their notions of America and identity and offered them privilege,

I detest its component parts—“micro” and “aggression.” A persistent daily low hum of racist abuse is not minor. I use the term “abuse” because aggression is not as exacting a term.

The face of ethnic racism bares itself in the form of a persistent question: “Where are you from?”