How to Be an Antiracist (One World Essentials)

by Ibram X. Kendi

An antiracist idea is any idea that suggests the racial groups are equals in all their apparent differences—that there is nothing right or wrong with any racial group. Antiracist ideas argue that racist policies are the cause of racial inequities.

I’m thinking about what’s not written in this passage. What drives me to produce scholarship about antiracism, about antiracist ideas, about being antiracist is learning from the research how and what I can be and do to dismantle racism—and knowing I’m not alone in this learning journey. It doesn’t help me—and I suspect you—for scholars to say what we should not be doing if scholars don’t also use their research expertise to say what we should be doing. It’s like a nutritionist telling clients to cut back on red meat without telling them what they should eat more of. What do you think about this?