Ibram X. Kendi
Autore di How to Be an Antiracist
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: 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
Opere di Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (2016) 3,078 copie, 67 recensioni
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning (2020) 1,983 copie, 66 recensioni
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (2021) — A cura di — 871 copie, 22 recensioni
Opere correlate
The Souls of Black Folk: With The Talented Tenth and The Souls of White Folk (1903) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 489 copie, 6 recensioni
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Kendi, Ibram Xolani
- Altri nomi
- Rogers, Ibram H.
- Data di nascita
- 1982-08-13
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Istruzione
- 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) - Attività lavorative
- scholar of history and international relations
university professor
historian, Africana studies - Organizzazioni
- American University
Center for Antiracist Research, Boston University
Boston University
University of Florida
The Emancipator (co-founder)
CBS News (mostra tutto 8)
The Atlantic
Maroon Visions (founder) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- MacArthur Fellowship (2021)
Time Magazine (100 Most Influential People in the world, 2020)
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Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 19
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 11,747
- Popolarità
- #2,001
- Voto
- 4.3
- Recensioni
- 304
- ISBN
- 138
- Lingue
- 7
- Preferito da
- 7
Jason Reynolds declares that this is not a history book. But a great chunk of it is dedicated to US history and how racism and anti-racism became mainstream topics in the country. The range of topics covered is vast: skin colour and religion based discrimination, how racist ideas began, historical racists, contemporary racism, biblical scriptures being used for racist thinking, white privilege, gender discrimination, interracial relationships, segregation, black power… It goes from one hard-hitting idea to another. More importantly, it does so in a chronological order such that the development of these thoughts over the centuries is made vividly clear.
Originally written by Ibram X. Kendi under the title “[b:Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America|25898216|Stamped from the Beginning The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America|Ibram X. Kendi|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1440457523l/25898216._SY75_.jpg|45781103]”, this adaptation by Jason Reynolds brings the ideas to the level of the teenage reader. And this is brilliantly done. He doesn’t shy away from complicated topics, but his approach – combining humour with history – makes this a superb book for its target segment.
I do wish it had been a bit more global in its approach; there was a lot of US history that I couldn’t connect with. (This, of course, is to be blamed on my erroneous expectations. The book didn’t claim that it wasn’t about the USA.) At the same time, there is no doubt that the problem of racism persists in various forms in almost all countries and more such books are required across the globe so that at least the next generation is better equipped to clean the mess made by their forefathers.
My favourite line among many thought-provoking quotes:
“There will come a time when we will love humanity, when we will gain the courage to fight for an equitable society for our beloved humanity, knowing, intelligently, that when we fight for humanity, we are fighting for ourselves.”
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