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How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

31 reviews

jellybean53's review against another edition

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

jojo_'s review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Xenophobia

Moderate: Cancer, Hate crime, Misogyny, Murder, Racial slurs, and Violence

Minor: Child death, Gun violence, Police brutality, Slavery, and War

wellreadrebel's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

What I most liked about this book was the fact that it broke down the many different ways racism can come about in society, and also provided examples of how the author himself went about combatting these ideas within himself. It makes it seem more possible that an everyday person reading this book can have the same type of awakening.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Police brutality

kylieqrada's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

12/5⭐s. Ibram X. Kendi is IT, folks. I will unquestioningly consume everything he puts out, up to and including his computer post-it notes. I bet they would be everything. All that being said, I really really really really love How To Be An Antiracist. An engaging mix of historical fact, personal experience, and antiracist philosophy, I definitely highlighted the vast majority of this book and will be pressing it into anyone's hands who will receive it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Death, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, and Trafficking

btg's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative slow-paced

5.0

Do yourself a favor and just read the book. Frankly, I don't think I have the words to describe how beneficial and eye-opening Kendi's book is. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Cancer, Transphobia, Slavery, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Police brutality, Xenophobia, and Islamophobia

Minor: Mass/school shootings

Quick note on the content warnings -- this is a nonfiction book. Very few of these are explicitly described without the unpacking/dismantling of the reasons why it happens/what we can do about it, and I wouldn't strictly describe most of the content used as "graphic". It's definitely presented differently than a typical piece of media. That being said, be aware that this book covers heavy topics, probably because it's an antiracism book. Of course various types of prejudice are getting explored

ashleyreads88's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

This book was different than I expected and in a good way.  How To Be An Antiracist is more autobiographical than a "how-to" book, and which made it an interesting, engaging read.  I loved reading about Ibrams's experiences, thoughts, feelings, and opinions.  I also very much enjoyed the definitions at the beginning of the chapters and the ways to be an antiracist throughout the book.  I learned a lot from reading How To Be An Antiracist and am excited to read more of Ibram's works.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Homophobia, Cancer, and Police brutality

melaniereadsbooks's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

4.5

This book taught me a ton and I really enjoyed it as well.

Kendi does an excellent job interweaving historical examples, personal examples, and well-explained definitions into each chapter to teach about the many intersectionalities of racism and other -ims. 

My only complaint is that I felt the chapters on gender and sexuality were severely lacking compared to the rest of the book, and it was very noticeable that these were not up to par.

I felt this book taught a lot and I look forward to reading more of Kendi's work.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Cancer, Sexism, Homophobia, Transphobia, and Police brutality

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

"Americans have long been trained to see the deficiencies of people rather than policy. It's a pretty easy mistake to make: People are in our faces. Policies are distant. We are particularly poor at seeing the policies lurking behind the struggles of people.”

Ibram Kendi takes a good hard look at racism in this book. He discussed how racism tries to turn the word "racist" into an epethet so racist people can be mad about being called racist, and speaks at length about fighting racist policies that create racial inequity. He also spends quite a lot of time examining his own racism (and other things like homophobia) in his past endeavors to fight racism and how he's learned from that. I recommend this read, but it may be hard for anyone who's lives have been touched by cancer (discussed in the ending). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, and Racism

Moderate: Gun violence, Hate crime, Sexism, and Misogyny

Minor: Biphobia, Homophobia, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Racial slurs, Police brutality, and Forced institutionalization

jhpepper's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Racial slurs

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Medical content, Mental illness, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, and Violence

gagne's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs and Racism

Minor: Cancer, Police brutality, Xenophobia, Transphobia, Slavery, Sexism, and Religious bigotry