How to Be An Antiracist: Suggested Resources

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Ibram X. Kendi is a contributing writer to The Atlantic.

He wrote a history of racist ideas and the blockbuster How to Be an Antiracist, but that doesn't mean Kendi is done learning or teaching. In fact, he's only just getting started. -- You will need to click on the link twice to work as well as log in with your MyPVCC username and password. (Factiva is having technical difficulties.)

Brene Brown talks with professor Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist and the Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. They talk about racial disparities, policy, and equality, but really focus on How to Be an Antiracist, which is a groundbreaking approach to understanding uprooting racism and inequality in our society and in ourselves.

Ibram X. Kendi and his colleagues are choosing to use the blocks of thoughtful and exhaustive public scholarship to build an antiracist future for America, for humanity. There is no better base of operations to found our research center than Boston University, a community of researchers and learners founded in, and still committed to, inclusion.

Ibram X. Kendi is the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped From The Beginning: A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America and How to Be an Antiracist. His relentless and passionate research puts into question the notion of a post-racial society and opens readers' and audiences' eyes to the reality of racism in America today. Kendi's lectures are sharp, informative, and hopeful, serving as a strong platform for any institution's discussions on racial discrimination.

In 2016, he was a surprise National Book Award winner for a sweeping history of ever-mutating American racism. Now, he’s back with a new book that outlines how to fight it.

Founder of new anti-racism center at American University sees impact of policy, culture on black athletes.