How to Be an Antiracist (One World Essentials)

by Ibram X. Kendi

Many of us who strongly call out Trump’s racist ideas will strongly deny our own.

But there is no neutrality in the racism struggle. The opposite of “racist” isn’t “not racist.” It is “antiracist.” What’s the difference? One endorses either the idea of a racial hierarchy as a racist, or racial equality as an antiracist.

and the only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it—and then dismantle it.

THIS BOOK IS ultimately about the basic struggle we’re all in, the struggle to be fully human and to see that others are fully human.

Definitions anchor us in principles. This is not a light point: If we don’t do the basic work of defining the kind of people we want to be in language that is stable and consistent, we can’t work toward stable, consistent goals.