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This is one of the best books I have EVER read!

Stop seeing everything through the lens of race.

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There was a problem loading your book clubs. There is nothing new here. Please try again. Kendi’s position is not that Blacks can be racist against Whites, but that Blacks can be racist against other Black people.

Don't get me wrong, there's a centuries-long legacy of segregation in the USA, but Kendi doesn't provide an objective view of how racism and segregation became, nor how they can be resolved.

She was looking for truth, and she got it. The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. At its core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human value; its warped logic extends beyond race, from the way we regard people of different ethnicities or skin colors to the way we treat people of different sexes, gender identities, and body types. .

Richard Rothstein. Assimilationists want acceptance and often are willing to have either partial approval or behavior-based acceptance of some, as opposed to all. Growing up in majority-white schools, organizations, and churches, Austin writes, "I had to learn what it means to love blackness", a journey that led to a lifetime spent navigating America's racial divide as a writer, speaker, and expert who helps organizations practice genuine inclusion. In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement. Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with a racialized America came at age seven, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man. . Racism intersects with class and culture and geography and even changes the way we see and value ourselves. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times best seller list.

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Isabel Wilkerson, Narrated by: Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? “The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.” (The New York Times), Named One of the Best Books of the Year by: The New York Times Book Review • Time • The Washington Post • Shelf Awareness • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus Reviews. How to Be an Antiracist punctures the myths of a post-racial America, examining what racism really is - and what we should do about it.” (Time), “Ibram Kendi’s work, through both his books and the Antiracist Research and Policy Center, is vital in today’s sociopolitical climate. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Unparalleled guide for those troubled by racial inequality but aren’t sure what to do about it, Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2019. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 10th Anniversary Edition.

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And he is not at all rejecting the concept of racism as a systemic reality. Austin Channing Brown, Narrated by: Kendi recounts how soon after they were married, his wife developed breast cancer.

Pellentesque nec risus dui. . In How to be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it. Despite it being shorter and less academic, I think this is a book I am going to need to read again, while I doubt I will re-read Stamped from the Beginning. Michelle Alexander, Narrated by:

Please try again. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent meaningful cross-racial dialogue. Mary Hartnett, “Ibram X. Kendi’s new book, How to Be an Antiracist, couldn’t come at a better time. It's a fact.

However, in the case of this book, I am not enjoying listening to the author read his own story.

In How to be an Antiracist, Kendi gets some information about what an antiracist society may resemble, and how we can assume a functioning job in building it.

"—Christina H., Audible Editor. Racism intersects with class and culture and geography and even changes the way we see and value ourselves.

I learnt so much reading this, and it provided perspectives on racism that previously I hadn’t considered, because of my own white privilege, because no matter how much I try to educate myself, I will never walk in the shoes of a different race. In a political climate that yearns for clarity, understanding and healing, Kendi presents the reader with one lens to view the world: "anti-racist" or racisct. Duis ut nisl in mi eleifend faucibus egestas aliquet arcu. . Exceptionally clear, heart-felt and intelligent. For more than a decade, Brené Brown has found a special place in our hearts as a gifted mapmaker and a fellow traveler. “Kendi dissects why in a society where so few people consider themselves to be racist the divisions and inequalities of racism remain so prevalent. Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about enabling communication across racial and ethnic divides. I urge readers to check their own privilege while reading this - I found it impossible not to. He talks about anger and hatred against White people for both the historical harm and the continued indifference to racism. Should we develop an anti-racist policy that prioritizes black patient appointment scheduling and bump whites from the schedule if a black wants/needs that appointment slot?

It is spreading and distorting culture and if it is not rooted out, not just in the racial aspects, but the sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, etc., it will continue to metastasize and transform.

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It's like the whole human race needs to start over and labels of others cannot be allowed if we r to live together peacefully. I also hope this man opens his mind just a little more to dig deeper into the figures and compare ALL the data as things relate to one another. Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true? Cynical, i know but my peoples sad experience. By: I urge the author to consider re-recording this.

As a psychologist, I was particularly impressed with the author's modeling of introspection, vulnerability, and his own "doing the work.".