Ibram X. Kendi
Författare till How to Be an Antiracist
Om författaren
Ibram Xolani Kendi was born in New York City in 1982. He received undergraduate degrees in journalism and African American studies from Florida A&M University in 2004. He worked as a journalist before receiving a doctoral degree in African American studies from Temple University in 2010. He is visa mer currently an assistant professor of African American history at the University of Florida. He has published fourteen essays in books and academic journals including The Journal of African American History, Journal of Social History, Journal of Black Studies, Journal of African American Studies, and The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture. His first book, The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965-1972, was written under the pen name Ibram H. Rogers. His second book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2016. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Foto taget av: Author and historian Ibram X. Kendi at the 2019 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, United States. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84785637
Verk av Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning (2020) 1,893 exemplar
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (2021) — Redaktör — 838 exemplar
The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965-1972 (2012) 23 exemplar
An Antiracist Reading List (Published 2019) 1 exemplar
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The Souls of Black Folk: With The Talented Tenth and The Souls of White Folk (1903) — Inledning, vissa utgåvor — 478 exemplar
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- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Kendi, Ibram Xolani
- Andra namn
- Rogers, Ibram H.
- Födelsedag
- 1982-08-13
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- New York, New York, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Utbildning
- Temple University (PhD ∙ African American Studies, 2010)
Florida A & M University (MA|African American Studies, 2007)
Florida A & M University (BA|Journalism, 2004)
Florida A & M University (BA|African American Studies, 2004) - Yrken
- scholar of history and international relations
university professor
historian, Africana studies - Organisationer
- American University
Center for Antiracist Research, Boston University
Boston University
University of Florida
The Emancipator (co-founder)
CBS News (visa alla 8)
The Atlantic
Maroon Visions (founder) - Priser och utmärkelser
- MacArthur Fellowship (2021)
Time Magazine (100 Most Influential People in the world, 2020)
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- 19
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- 11,244
- Popularitet
- #2,097
- Betyg
- 4.3
- Recensioner
- 300
- ISBN
- 131
- Språk
- 6
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- 6
I usually end up rolling my eyes at "everything you thought you knew was wrong" style books, because - no matter how well-intentioned - there comes a point when it's hard to believe that out of every human on earth, we've all been going the wrong way and only the Messiah-like author can save us. But this is actually not Kendi's aim. Instead he draws on a rich vein of historical sources and some impeccable research to explain the points-of-view of those who already knew what we should be doing, contrasting it with his own development as a young dark-skinned black man growing up in the USA, filled with his own biases, bigotries, and fears. We emerge from the final chapter not, perhaps, with an answer on what we need to do to solve the impacts of racism in our society, but certainly with an awareness of innovative, powerful, and practical tools at our disposal.
One caveat for international readers like myself: this book is not a "beginner's guide" in any sense - to the problems of racism, to sociology, to history. It was written by a highly-educated, intellectual, deeply progressive American who writes for The Atlantic and he assumes his audience are highly-educated, intellectual, deeply progressive Americans who probably read The Atlantic. As a result, I got a bit lost occasionally when American history and slang played major roles in some chapters, or when the discussion veered off into modern academic theories on race and discrimination. (Kendi himself acknowledges that he doesn't use some of these phrases when talking to laypeople!) That's not a complaint - after all, this is an American book for Americans; I'm the problem child for reading it in my far-flung corner of the earth.
Yet I don't say that to put you off the book. It still has a lot to say on how we process our individual biases, instilled in us over a lifetime, and I will be reflecting upon it for a long time to come.… (mer)