Thanks to Random House for the free advance copy of this book.

HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST is part memoir and part educational text. Kendi sets out anecdotes from his own life to illustrate the variety of ways racism manifests in America and how it is closely intertwined with other prejudices we hold.

The writing in this book is simple and straightforward - you do not need a deep academic understanding of race to grasp the concepts Kendi brings to the reader. You will come away with that deep understanding after reading this book.

This book helped me untangle a lot of things that get conflated in our society. We often confuse race and ethnicity, or race and class, or many of the other subsets of racist thought laid out in each chapter. I was made to think about these things from angles I had never considered before, and I closed the book with not only a better understanding of my own ingrained racism but a framework for working against it - literally, how to be an antiracist.