How to Raise an Antiracist
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How do we talk to our children about racism? How do we teach children to be antiracist? How are racist structures impacting children? These are the questions Ibram X. Kendi found himself avoiding as he anticipated the birth of his first child. Like most parents or parents-to-be, he felt the reflex to not talk to his child about racism, which he feared would stain her innocence and steal away her joy. But research into the scientific literature, his experiences as a father and reflections on his own difficult experiences as a student ultimately changed his mind. In the accessible mode of ‘How To Be an Antiracist’, Kendi combines scientific research with a vulnerable and compelling personal narrative to argue that it is only by teaching our children about the reality of racism and the myth of race from the earliest age that we can actually protect them and preserve their innocence and joy.
A ground-breaking argument about children, racism and how to build the antiracist society of the future – from the author of the million-copy global bestseller How To Be an Antiracist
*A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
‘One of the pre-eminent intellectuals on race’ OWEN JONES
How do kids think about race? How are they affected by it? At what age should we talk to them about racism? What is the best way to do that? How can we raise our children to be antiracist?
In this inspiring and deeply personal investigation, Ibram X. Kendi explains how to safeguard our children from racism and how we can all participate in fostering a new generation of antiracists.
His essential and revolutionary insight is that our instinct to protect our children from racism by not talking about it is entirely wrong. Using the science of childhood development, illustrated with his own experiences as a father, he shows that only by teaching our children about the realities of racism from the youngest age can we truly protect them and build the antiracist society of the future.
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Praise for How To Be an Antiracist:
‘One of the US’s most respected scholars of race and history’ Afua Hirsch, Guardian
‘Transformative and revolutionary’ Robin DiAngelo, author of White Fragility
‘The most courageous book to date on the problem of race’ The New York Times
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