Describe your latest book.
Following up my National Book Award–winning
Stamped From the Beginning, I sought to create an original approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society — and in ourselves. After all, the only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it — and then dismantle it. I hope that my new book,
How to Be an Antiracist, reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America — but even more fundamentally, that it points humanity toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In
How to Be an Antiracist, I ask us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it.
I combine ethics, history, law, and science, threading it all together with personal stories of my own personal awakening to antiracism.
How to Be an Antiracist is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond an awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a truly just and equitable society...