“To be an anti-racist is to think nothing is behaviorally wrong or right — inferior or superior — with any of the racial groups. Whenever the anti-racist sees individuals behaving positively or negatively, the anti-racist sees exactly that: individuals behaving positively or negatively, not representatives of whole races. To be anti-racist is to deradicalize behavior, to remove the tattooed stereotype from every racialized body. Behavior is something humans do, not races do.” (Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist, p. 105)
Getting Involved: How to Be an Anti-Racist
- Begin at the individual level
- "To be anti-racist is a radical choice in the face of history, requiring a racial reorientation of our consciousness." — Kendi
- Suggested reading: How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi and The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- Discussion/Reflection Questions Based on How to Be an Antiracist Book [pdf]
- Be Anti-Racist: A Journal for Awareness, Reflection, and Action
- Collective efforts, past and present
- Links to past community conversations
- Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources by the Lang Center
- Timeline for upcoming community conversations
- Black Liberation 1969 Archive
