Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Time Magazine International Edition

    His mission: changing how we think about racism

    Feb 18, 2023 5 minutes

    Not long after How to Be an Antiracist was published in August 2019, the book’s author, the historian and National Book Award winner Ibram X. Kendi, found his work an unexpected touch point in the conversation about the persistence of racism in American society. Initially I was wary: The title had the ring of self-help, the ideology that personal effort can fix anything. It sounded like one of those books that make the bold and arguably illogical claim that just about everything is within the individual’s control. They do not demand system change, but personal effort.

    But its new companion volume, co-authored by young-adult novelist Nic Stone and published on Jan. 31, illuminates just how much that’s not the case. In a format accessible to younger readers, the book explores how we are gradually drafted into the thinking and lies that can render a person unable, or at least unwilling, to challenge the systems

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Time Magazine International Edition

    Time Magazine International Edition2 min read
    What’s With All The Cicadas?
    More than a trillion noisy, inch-long (or larger) cicadas have surfaced from underground across much of the U.S. this spring, in a massive co-emergence that hasn’t been seen in more than 200 years. It was the first time since 1803—when Thomas Jeffers
    Time Magazine International Edition7 min read
    Innovators
    In 2020, for every 100,000 Nigerian women who gave birth, about 1,000 did not survive, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Hadiza Galadanci, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Nigeria’s Bayero University, knows that problem all
    Time Magazine International Edition2 min read
    Helping The World Live Better
    In 2018, we worked with Bill Gates on a special issue of TIME dedicated to the power of optimism. Gates’ view, shared by many of the issue’s contributors, was that people are wired to focus on when things go wrong and when they don’t work. Sometimes

    Related Books & Audiobooks