Book #126 of 2022: How to Raise an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi A thoughtful guide on modeling conversations about race and racism for young kids, in recognition of the fact that they will be exposed to a lot of prejudiced situations and ideas that can be internalized if not actively confronted. This book definitely …
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Book #51 of 2022: The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine This volume is an expansion of the original New York Times Magazine article that was published to honor the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to Virginia, highlighting American history through …
Book #172 of 2021: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain This is a remarkable and remarkably ambitious project, bringing together eighty prominent African American writers, from Angela Davis to Jamelle Bouie to Isabel Wilkerson, in order to pen a sweeping account of …
Book #172 of 2020: Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi This book by Jason Reynolds attempts to condense Ibram X. Kendi’s excellent Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America into a more streamlined version for younger readers. (Both men are credited as authors, but …
Book #139 of 2020: Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi Published in early 2016, this is a meticulously thorough presentation of American anti-black racism and notions of race more generally, from pre-revolutionary slavery through the extrajudicial killings that sparked the modern #BlackLivesMatter movement. The material …
Book #194 of 2019: How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi This is a clarifying read in many ways, and I appreciate author Ibram X. Kendi’s framing of racism as any policy or behavior that maintains or furthers inequity across racial groups. Moving the locus of activism from intention to effect is an …
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