A review by rachelfaye
The Antiracist: How to Start the Conversation about Race and Take Action by Kondwani Fidel

4.0

[Read in a social justice book club.] What I took from this book, on my antiracist journey as a white woman in the US, is empathy via antidote. I would not necessarily consider it a how-to guide of "taking action," but its value is significant nonetheless. Hearing Kondwani's stories told with such matter-of-factness, kindness, and strength helped me to understand a bit more what life is like for a black person, a black man, a black child, that grew up in an underfunded, under-cared-for, overpoliced neighborhood. It's not like a literary miracle by any means, but its true power comes through the author's storytelling and giving the readers an insight into a life that may or may not look anything like his, in order to generate significant empathy.