How to Be an Antiracist
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“A boldly articulated, historically informed explanation of what exactly racist ideas and thinking are . . . prose is thoughtful, sincere, and polished. This powerful book will spark many conversations
“A combination of memoir and extension of towering Stamped from the Beginning . . . Never wavering . . . methodically examines racism through numerous lenses: power, biology, ethnicity, body, culture, and so forth. . . . This unsparing honesty helps readers, both white and people of color, navigate this difficult intellectual territory. . . . Essential.
Most people will tell you that racism is all about hatred and ignorance. In How to Be an Antiracist, We follow-up to his National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning, he explains that racism is ultimately structural. Racism directs attention away from harmful, inequitable policies and turns that attention on the people harmed by those policies. employs history, science, and ethics to describe different forms of racism; at the same time, he follows the events and experiences of his own life, adapting a memoir approach that personalizes his arguments. This is a very effective combination, fusing the external forces of racism with own reception and responses to that racism—the result will be mind-expanding for many readers. title encompasses his main thesis: simply not being racist isn't enough. We must actively choose to be "antiracist," working to undo racism and its component polices in order to build an equitable society. To read this book is to relate to the author as an individual and realize just how much we all have in common. As writes: race is a mirage, assigning an identity according to skin color, ignoring the individual.
“A boldly articulated, historically informed explanation of what exactly racist ideas and thinking are . . . prose is thoughtful, sincere, and polished. This powerful book will spark many conversations
“A combination of memoir and extension of towering Stamped from the Beginning . . . Never wavering . . . methodically examines racism through numerous lenses: power, biology, ethnicity, body, culture, and so forth. . . . This unsparing honesty helps readers, both white and people of color, navigate this difficult intellectual territory. . . . Essential.
Most people will tell you that racism is all about hatred and ignorance. In How to Be an Antiracist, We follow-up to his National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning, he explains that racism is ultimately structural. Racism directs attention away from harmful, inequitable policies and turns that attention on the people harmed by those policies. employs history, science, and ethics to describe different forms of racism; at the same time, he follows the events and experiences of his own life, adapting a memoir approach that personalizes his arguments. This is a very effective combination, fusing the external forces of racism with own reception and responses to that racism—the result will be mind-expanding for many readers. title encompasses his main thesis: simply not being racist isn't enough. We must actively choose to be "antiracist," working to undo racism and its component polices in order to build an equitable society. To read this book is to relate to the author as an individual and realize just how much we all have in common. As writes: race is a mirage, assigning an identity according to skin color, ignoring the individual.