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How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

30 reviews

emflipspages's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Racial slurs, and Cancer

Moderate: Transphobia, Homophobia, Hate crime, Sexism, and Police brutality

alyssa_s10's review

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

I read this book as part of the ABC book challenge. I am glad I picked this one.  It is a must read and I couldn't put it down. I love how he frames his talking points and his thesis.

I liked the ending  allegory of racism to cancer.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Hate crime, Police brutality, and Sexism

Minor: Transphobia

anniereads221's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Police brutality, Murder, Islamophobia, Grief, Cancer, Ableism, Xenophobia, Transphobia, Antisemitism, Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Violence, Sexual assault, Sexism, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Mass/school shootings, Homophobia, Gun violence, Hate crime, Death, and Colonisation

brookey8888's review

challenging dark hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

I found this very interesting and thought provoking. I learned a lot. That being said I don’t know if I fully agree with some of the things mentioned. I am a white person and I don’t think you can be fully racist towards white people(obviously you can be hateful and mean), but I do think that will turn people off from reading this book because people don’t believe that. I do think it was interesting and I understand why he said that. Know this isn’t really a how to guide on how to be anti racist, it’s more of a here’s things that are racist and then what is considered anti racist. So if you listen to that you will learn how to be more anti racist. I do recommend this because I did learn a lot and I think it would benefit people to read this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Homophobia, Bullying, Hate crime, and Racism

ajdotcom's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

2.5

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Every sentence in this book is a new piece of wisdom. Don't go into it thinking it will mirror other antiracism books you may have read before; Kendi has quite a different viewpoint in some places, which made me face my own stubbornness and conviction that my views on the problem are "right". Chapters are split into half memoir, half historical/legal/etc. context. The memoir parts are really touching and it's inspiring to see Kendi's own journey from racism to antiracism; hearing how he's changed over years and through the help of others gives me hope that I and others can do the same. I sometimes found the factual context sections a little intellectually overwhelming; there are a lot of legal cases, dates, facts and figures mentioned, so I don't feel like I took it all in, but the parts I did absorb added much-needed context to the memoir sections and the antiracism struggle in general. This book is absolutely rammed with much-needed information and I would highly recommend it to anyone and everyone.
EDIT: Since writing this review, I have been signposted to the That's Not How That Works podcast's episode about this book, which you can listen to here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/129eEvOkro4MQO0hRRJK44?si=EUs9Ocg2QUiApdCL9dJOiw&utm_source=copy-link. I did not have the required critical thinking skills to see what lens this book was written through, and my positive review was reflective of that. Please listen to Trudi and Weeze's podcast; I have changed my rating to a 2.5 so I don't have an impact on the book's overall rating on the StoryGraph. I have a lot more to learn, and I'm sorry that I contributed to harm through lack of critical thought.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Cancer

Moderate: Police brutality

The police brutality part is

a description of the immediate lead-up to the murder of Trayvon Martin.

It is one paragraph that I would say is skippable if this is triggering for you.

seawarrior's review

hopeful informative reflective tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Racial slurs

Moderate: Colonisation, Hate crime, Rape, Bullying, Cancer, Classism, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Misogyny, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Transphobia, and Xenophobia

lucinotlucy's review

challenging hopeful informative medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Colonisation, Racism, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Classism, Medical content, Police brutality, Trafficking, Homophobia, and Sexism

felicity2023's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Police brutality and Gun violence

Minor: Transphobia

rieviolet's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I am really a beginner when it comes to reading about racism and other aspects of social justice, so this book was a very important read for me and helped me a lot to understand better, to learn more and to reflect, even when that meant difficult and painful reflections. 

Overall, I think the book was very accessible and easy to follow, although some of the ideas and themes included certainly need time to sink in and to be digested. 

I enjoyed the narrative choice of alternating  personal experiences and explanatory/reflective segments. It was really fascinating to follow the author's own journey and to see it reflected in the themes included in the chapter. 
I very much enjoyed the historical sections and I look forward to expanding my reading and my knowledge of these topics. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Bullying, Slavery, Cancer, Medical content, Sexism, Violence, Murder, and Colonisation

Minor: War, Transphobia, Homophobia, Gun violence, and Fatphobia

jellybean53's review

challenging dark hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Cancer, Medical content, Slavery, Xenophobia, Sexism, Police brutality, Violence, Gun violence, and Bullying

Minor: Transphobia, Homophobia, and Colonisation