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A book that makes you think and forces you to look deep into your actions and inactions.
I was in the middle of reading another of Kendi's highly-aclaimed books, Stamped from the Beginning, when my library emailed that I was next in line to check out How to Be an Antiracist. I had one week with this book and, even though I tried, one week is not enough time to fully digest how Kendi weaves together personal experience, historical events, and current policies.
He shows how racism inequity intersec ...more
I was in the middle of reading another of Kendi's highly-aclaimed books, Stamped from the Beginning, when my library emailed that I was next in line to check out How to Be an Antiracist. I had one week with this book and, even though I tried, one week is not enough time to fully digest how Kendi weaves together personal experience, historical events, and current policies.
He shows how racism inequity intersec ...more
Race is a mirage but one that humanity has organized itself around in very real ways. Imagining away the existence of races in a racist world is as conserving and harmful as imagining away classes in a capitalistic world--it allows the ruling races and classes to keep on ruling.
This book sat on my bookshelf for a very long time, unread, because I was wary of what I anticipated to be heavy contents inside. When I finally started this book, I was surprised that it is a pseudo-memoir, with Kendi's ...more
This book sat on my bookshelf for a very long time, unread, because I was wary of what I anticipated to be heavy contents inside. When I finally started this book, I was surprised that it is a pseudo-memoir, with Kendi's ...more
I put this on hold with the library quite some the ago and the timing on it coming available was well...timely.
I debated whether to give it 4 or 5 starts because having previously read Stamped From the Beginning I didn't get quite as much out of this one personally, but I do feel it is as excellent and thought provoking as that book.
The framing in this book around his own personal journey was a useful device and one I think will help most people wrap their minds around the concepts while consid ...more
I debated whether to give it 4 or 5 starts because having previously read Stamped From the Beginning I didn't get quite as much out of this one personally, but I do feel it is as excellent and thought provoking as that book.
The framing in this book around his own personal journey was a useful device and one I think will help most people wrap their minds around the concepts while consid ...more
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Tegan
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Rod Snavely
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it was amazing
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