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A review by sweekune
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.5
4.5/5
Audiobook narrated by the author.
A powerful and reflective book that goes through the nuances of racism with a tooth comb and examines them thoroughly.
- Kendi uses a combination of documented history, personal biography and growth and reflective examination to confront racism and discuss how we, individuals and society, can make changes to be antiracist. This book is not an instructional guide or a list of points to be met but instead inspires the reader to reflect, grow and make change.
- The book at time is quite intense (necessarily) and I read it switching between paper copy and audiobook which helped me to digest it better. It is not a quick and easy read and neither should it be.
- Reading this in 2023, I am prompted to examine the world around me and I realise how much this book is needed. This book is very much focused on the USA but it's ideas are often applicable globally or in other nations. We need to educate, act and build more antiracist ideas into our societies.
This book is needed. In amongst the book bans, the education restrictions and the policy makers enforcing these to maintain their own power, we need books like this to help us to grow and change and cut out the cancer that is racism.
Audiobook narrated by the author.
A powerful and reflective book that goes through the nuances of racism with a tooth comb and examines them thoroughly.
- Kendi uses a combination of documented history, personal biography and growth and reflective examination to confront racism and discuss how we, individuals and society, can make changes to be antiracist. This book is not an instructional guide or a list of points to be met but instead inspires the reader to reflect, grow and make change.
- The book at time is quite intense (necessarily) and I read it switching between paper copy and audiobook which helped me to digest it better. It is not a quick and easy read and neither should it be.
- Reading this in 2023, I am prompted to examine the world around me and I realise how much this book is needed. This book is very much focused on the USA but it's ideas are often applicable globally or in other nations. We need to educate, act and build more antiracist ideas into our societies.
This book is needed. In amongst the book bans, the education restrictions and the policy makers enforcing these to maintain their own power, we need books like this to help us to grow and change and cut out the cancer that is racism.