October 1, 8, 15, 27, 29. 6:30pm.
By Live Video Conference
Hosted by Rev. Abraham Funchess
Sponsored by the Cedar Valley Interfaith Council
These discussions are based on the book How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi. Kendi argues that the opposite of "racist" is not "not racist" but "antiracist." This concept of antiracism reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America and points toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. Instead of working with the policies and system we have in place, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it.
How to Be An Antiracist weaves together a combination of ethics, history, law, and science--including the story of Kendi's own awakening to antiracism--bringing it all together in a cogent, accessible form. He begins by helping us rethink our most deeply held, if implicit, beliefs and our most intimate personal relationships (including beliefs about race and IQ and interracial social relations) and reexamines the policies and larger social arrangements we support. How to Be an Antiracist promises to become an essential book for anyone who wants to go beyond an awareness of racism to the next step of contributing to the formation of a truly just and equitable society.
> Read "For White Christians, Being Non-Racist Is Not Enough" here.
Ibram X. Kendi is one of America’s foremost historians and a leading antiracist voice. He is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and the founding director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University and the Frances B. Cashin Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for the Advanced Study at Harvard University. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News correspondent. Kendi is the author of The Black Campus Movement (2012), which won the W.E.B. Du Bois Book Prize, and Stamped From the Beginning--The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (2017), a New York Times Bestseller which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2016. At 34 years old, Kendi was the youngest ever winner of the NBA for Nonfiction.
October 29. Chapters 16-18
Failure, Success, Survival
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