‘An essential framework for parsing current events . . . meticulously researched . . . worthwhile and accessible . . . also offers a modicum of hope’ Arwa Mahdawi, Guardian

Throughout the world, authoritarian movements are radically reshaping our politics and our lives. At the heart of them all lies ‘great replacement theory’, which insists that peoples of colour, migrants and minorities are being deliberately empowered to displace white majorities.

In Chain of Ideas, Ibram X. Kendi shows how this conspiracy theory has mutated from the extremist fringe into a global ideology, embraced by leaders as varied as Marine Le Pen, Viktor Orbán, Narendra Modi, Jair Bolsonaro, Nigel Farage, Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump. He traces its historic roots in slavery, segregation, colonialism and Nazism, and shows how these age-old prejudices have been dressed in new language for a digital age.

But this is not a book about extremists on the margins. From Anders Breivik’s massacre to the chants of the Charlottesville marchers, from Brexit slogans to the Christchurch shooting, Kendi shows how these ideas have crossed borders, inspired terror and are now re-shaping parties of government. Chain of Ideas is a penetrating history of how reactionary ideas have been repackaged as common sense, and how they shape the globe today.

PRAISE FOR IBRAM X. KENDI:

'The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind' The New York Times on How To Be an Antiracist

'One of the pre-eminent intellectuals on race' Guardian

'A kind, dignified, preternaturally wise teacher' GQ

'One of today’s most visible and sought-after public intellectuals' Wall Street Journal

'One of the US’s most respected scholars of race and history' Afua Hirsch

'[Kendi] is not a historian fearful of upsetting orthodoxies or questioning fixed reputations' David Olusoga

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In HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST Ibram X. Kendi, one of the world’s most influential scholars on racism, demolishes the idea of a post-racial society, punctures the myths and taboos that cloud our understanding of racism and presents a radically new approach to tackling it.

He shows how everyone is, at times, complicit in maintaining the structure of racism though we rarely realise it, and gives us the tools to identify and change those behaviours.

Uncompromising but essential, HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST sparked a new conversation about being antiracist around the world, showing that until we become part of the solution, we can only be part of the problem.

‘Transformative and revolutionary’ ROBIN DIANGELO, author of White Fragility
‘So vital’ IJEOMA OLUO, author of So You Want to Talk About Race
‘It feels like a light switch being flicked on’ OWEN JONES

How do we talk to our children about racism?

How do we teach children to be antiracist? How are kids at different ages experiencing race? How are racist structures impacting children? How can we inspire our children to avoid our mistakes, to be better, to make the world better?

These are the questions Ibram X. Kendi found himself avoiding as he anticipated the birth of his first child. Like most parents or parents-to-be, he felt the reflex to not talk to his child about racism, which he feared would stain her innocence and steal away her joy. But research into the scientific literature, his experiences as a father and reflections on his own difficult experiences as a student ultimately changed his mind.

In How to Raise an Antiracist he shows that we must all participate in the effort to raise young people as antiracists.

Praise for Ibram X. Kendi:

‘The most courageous book to date on the problem of race’ New York Times