How to Be an Antiracist
Where: The New School
66 W. 12th St.
212-229-5108 Price: Free
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In conjunction with this semester’s Global 1919 lecture series, the New School welcomes Professor Ibram X. Kendi.
When the first Black president headed into the White House, Americans were imagining their nation as colorblind and went so far as to call it post-racial. With the arrival of Donald Trump many people are awakening and seeing racial reality for the first time. With opened minds, people are actively trying to understand racism. In this deeply personal and empowering lecture, Kendi shifts the discussion from how not to be racist, to how to be an antiracist. He shares his own racist ideas and how he overcame them. He provides direction to people and institutions who want more than just band-aid programs, but actual antiracist action that builds an antiracist America.
Speaker
National Book Award-winning historian and author of Stamped From The Beginning
Ibram X. Kendi is a New York Times bestselling author and the founding director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. A professor of history and international relations and a frequent public speaker, Kendi is a columnist at The Atlantic. He is the author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, The Black Campus Movement, which won the W.E.B. Du Bois Book Prize and the newly released How To Be An Antiracist. Kendi lives in Washington, D.C.
Faculty Organizer
Assistant Professor of Historical Studies, Eugene Lang College and The New School for Social Research
This event is part of the Festival of New.
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