Content was well done, but I had some trouble with Stone's literary device of having the reader imagine him/herself to be Kendi as a teenager. I think my problem was because I had read Kendi's book first.

I was hoping that Nic Stone's version would work as well as Jason Reynold's version of Stamped did. The reviews are very positive.
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The bestselling adult book, adapted for young people by Nic Stone, is written in a note to self style to Ibram X. Kendi. It traces his life experiences and the way he grew to understand racist and antiracist thinking. It delves into unlearning, breaks down the book into chapters about things like gender, class, space, and explores intersectionality. Lots of definitions, examples, asides from Nic Stone who adds a layer of her own perspective.
I found it to be an accessible read. It was a slow read to absorb the many ideas contained within the book. Sometimes the narrative structure got in the way but it was a clever way to share Kendi's life, work, and shifts in his own thinking and how he would have received the book as a young person. ( )

The book is organized into 3 parts, Facing yourself, Facing the World, and Flipping the world over. Includes many definitions and endnotes.

As Jason Reynolds did with Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (2020), a teen edition of Kendi’s National Book Award–winning Stamped From the Beginning (2016), Stone puts her own distinctive spin on Kendi’s personal exploration of anti-racism in his widely acclaimed 2019 title, How To Be an Antiracist.

The original work is part memoir, and Stone approaches this in her adaptation by addressing Kendi in the second person as she explicates and contextualizes the epiphanies that brought him to anti-racism, placing the concepts themselves center stage. She switches comfortably between informal and formal modes, even within single passages: “In the 1960s—yeaaaaaars before you were born—President Lyndon B. Johnson implemented Affirmative Action…with the aim of leveling the employment playing field (creating more equity) between White dudes and women and non-White people as a means of expanding employment opportunities for people of color and women.” Frequent faux Post-its labeled “NIC’S NOTES” offer further context and commentary. “Peep this quote from racist policymaker Thomas Jefferson,” one begins. With key concepts set in boldface, the narrative bristles with definitions as it moves back and forth from Kendi’s life to his taxonomy of racism, always touching back on how his own internalized racism inflects on it. Though it’s too easy to lose track of whether Stone is addressing “you, IXK,” or “you, dear reader,” it’s a notably effective adaptation.

Successfully broadens the reach of the original to a younger audience. (endnotes) (Nonfiction. 12-18)

-Kirkus Review