by Ibram X. Kendi
Kendi argues that there is no neutral position on race: every policy, idea, and person is either racist or antiracist based on whether it produces or reduces racial inequity. He rejects the category of 'not racist' and narrates his own evolution away from internalized racist ideas through chapters on biology, class, gender, and culture.
In this collection, How to Be an Antiracist references 4 other books and is cited by 1 other book.
It draws on The Blank Slate, The Lucifer Effect and The Moral Animal.
It’s picked up by Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code.
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Engages Pinker's Blank Slate debate over biology and behavior, arguing against biological hierarchies and for environmental and policy-based explanations of group differences
Draws on Zimbardo's Lucifer Effect research on situational power and dehumanization to explain how ordinary people enforce racist policies
Engages Wright's Moral Animal evolutionary psychology claims, pushing back on adaptationist readings of group difference
Resonates with Haidt's Righteous Mind argument that moral intuitions precede moral reasoning, applied to how racist ideas rationalize pre-existing policy
The exact passages where other authors bring up “How to Be an Antiracist” and what they take from it.
Engages with Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist framework to argue that technology design must be actively antiracist rather than merely race-neutral, since neutral design defaults to encoding existing racial hierarchies
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Michelle Alexander
2 shared citations
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