How to Raise an Antiracist

How to Raise an Antiracist Synopsis

The tragedies and reckonings around racism that have rocked the country have created a specific crisis for parents and other caregivers: how do we talk to our children about it? How do we raise our children to avoid the mistakes of the present and past? While we do the work of dismantling racist behaviours in ourselves and the world around us, how do we raise our children to be antiracists from birth? These are the questions Ibram Kendi found himself confronting as he anticipated the birth of his first child-like most parents or parents-to-be, his first reflex was to avoid talking about racism to his child, which he feared would stain her innocence and steal away her joy. But research and experience changed his mind: he realised that antiracism has to be taught and modelled as early as possible-not just to armour them against the racism that still haunts our world, but to remind parents and caregivers to build a more just future for us all. Following the model of his bestselling How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi combines vital scholarship with a compelling personal narrative of his own journey as a parent to create a work whose advice is grounded in research and relatable real-world experience. The chapters follow the stages of child development and don't just help parents to raise antiracists, but also to create an antiracist world for them to grow into.

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