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Informationen zum Autor Ibram X. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is the author of many books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller How to Be an Antiracist and the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America , which was remixed for young adult readers by Jason Reynolds into Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You , and adapted into a graphic novel by cartoonist Joel Christian Gill. Dr. Kendi was awarded a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the “Genius Grant.” Find Dr. Kendi online @ibramxk on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter. Nic Stone is an Atlanta native and a Spelman College graduate. Her debut novel for young adults, Dear Martin , was a #1 New York Times bestseller. She is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Clean Getaway , the 2020 NPR Best Book of the Year selection Dear Justyce (a sequel to Dear Martin ), the Rainbow Book List Top Ten selection Odd One Out , Jackpot , and Shuri: A Black Panther Novel . She is one of the authors in the New York Times bestselling book Blackout , recently optioned for as a new anthology program for Netflix by Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company, Higher Ground. Find her online at nicstone.info or @nicstone. Klappentext Based on the adult bestseller by Ibram X. Kendi, and co-authored by bestselling author Nic Stone, How to be a (Young) Antiracist will serve as a guide for teens seeking a way forward in acknowledging, identifying, and dismantling racism and injustice. Leseprobe A Brief Word before We Begin . . . As I’m sure you’ve deduced from that whole “Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller How to Be an Antiracist ” statement on the cover, this book is . . . inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller How to Be an Antiracist , the paradigm-shifting memoir written by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi. And the inspired by is very important. Because this book is structured differently than its source of inspiration. Hence me, your beloved narrator, Nic Stone, including this pre -intro as a bit of a road map for the nonlinear journey you’re about to take through Dr. Kendi’s life. Said journey is broken up into three parts (or acts , if we want to get all narratively fancy with it): INSIDE: Facing Yourself The concepts covered here—definitions, dueling consciousness, power, biology, behavior, Black, and White—are all about turning inward and are focused on examining the paradigms, aka foundational thoughts and ideas, that form our views of ourselves and other people. OUTSIDE: Facing the World Once we’ve done some self-examination and rejiggering, it’ll be time to turn outward and take a microscopic-level look into the ways that racism permeates the world we live in and intersects with other forms of people being awful to each other. We’re talking color, ethnicity, body, gender, orientation, class, culture, and space. UPSIDE DOWN: Flipping the World Over This is where we get about that action, boss. We’re moving from failure to success and digging into what I —Nic—call the Four C’s of Changemaking: cogency, compassion, creativity, and collaboration. We’ll also make sure we have a solid grip on the power of pushing forward in spite of obstacles. And I know that a lot of you readers feel like you’re ready to get out there and tear down the vile walls of racism, so, like, why not just jump to this section first, right? Well, you could , obviously . . . But in my humble opinion, it would behoove you to read the other two sections first. Because as you, dear reader, will come to discover, being antiracist is more than a quick and eas...
