- Published: 15 August 2019
- ISBN: 9781473570979
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 320
How To Be an Antiracist
- Published: 15 August 2019
- ISBN: 9781473570979
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 320
Groundbreaking, brilliant, fearless
David Olusoga (on Stamped from the Beginning), Observer
You should read it for its arguments about what racism is. Nor should you dodge it on the basis that you knew all this already - like me, you almost certainly didn't
David Aaronovitch (on Stamped from the Beginning), The Times
Lucid, accessible, unyielding. Kendi's most important insight might help rethink anti-racist activism
Sadiah Qureshi (on Stamped from the Beginning), New Statesman
Transformative and revolutionary ... offers us a necessary and critical way forward
Robin DiAngelo, author of White Fragility
So vital. As a society, we need to start treating antiracism as action, not emotion - and Kendi is helping us do that
Ijeoma Oluo, author of So You Want to Talk About Race
No less than a road map for social change through a remarkable, personal and deeply touching journey. If you take the business of fighting oppression seriously and want to make a difference, this is something you need to read
Leslie Thomas, QC
Gives us the tools to make changes in our own lives and society at large. A must-read
June Sarpong, author of Diversify
Makes clear how we all must engage in the essential soul-searching to understand our own racism and the personal action required to become antiracist
Lord Herman Ouseley, former Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality and of Kick It Out
This is no guidebook to getting woke ... Never wavering, Kendi methodically examines racism through numerous lenses: power, biology, ethnicity, body, culture, and so forth. This unsparing honesty helps readers, both white and people of colour, navigate this difficult intellectual territory. Essential
Kirkus
An electrifying combination of ethics, history, law and science, bringing it all together with an engaging personal narrative . an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond an awareness of racism to the next step
The Voice
Could hardly be more relevant ... it feels like a light switch being flicked on
Owen Jones
Shocking and provocative . he uses his personal story to make his arguments so skilfully that the book is both a memoir and a strident call to arms
Irish Times
One of the US's most respected scholars of race and history... Kendi's argument is brilliantly simple ... he rejects the idea that racism is born out of ignorance. Racism, history shows, is born out of its profitability and utility ... His honesty ... is one of the most powerful elements in this compelling book
Afua Hirsch, Guardian
One of the pre-eminent intellectuals on race
Owen Jones
Everyone should have a copy of this important, poignant and timely book
Christofere Fila, Amnest International UK
The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind
New York Times
A work of immense moral authority, brilliantly told, it's deeply humane, revolutionary, essential
Thomas Penn, History Today
An incredible book
Gina Rubel, Techregister