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How to Be An Antiracist – Book Club
November 17, 2020 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Free
Join the conversation this month through Zoom to discuss How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi. Conversations Book Club features authors and characters from marginalized groups. We meet on the third Tuesday of every month at 6:30PM.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism–and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. 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. Racism intersects with class and culture and geography and even changes the way we see and value ourselves. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas–from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilities–that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves.
Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism. This is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a just and equitable society.
IBRAM X. KENDI is one of America’s foremost historians and leading antiracist voices. He is a National Book Award-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and the Founding Director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. Kendi is a contributor writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News Racial Justice Contributor. He is also the 2020-2021 Frances B. Cashin Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for the Advanced Study at Harvard University. In 2020, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
What we’re reading:
2020
October – The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman
November – How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
December – Red At the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
2021
January – Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
February – Reconstruction by Henry Louis Gates
March – Transcendent Kingdom by Yaya Gyasi
April – So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
May – Queenie by Candace Carty-Williams
June – Read Across RI Pick
July – Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett
August – Begin Again by Eddie N. Glade
September – 2021-2022 Selections