RaveThe New Statesman... a lucid, accessible survey of how \'the people\' were racialised over 500 years ... Kendi confidently re-evaluates the writings of many celebrated abolitionists and African-American heroes and concludes that racism often underpinned their strategies ... Kendi’s most important insight might help rethink anti-racist activism ... One might expect Kendi to be despondent, but he believes that eradicating discriminatory policies will consign racist ideas to the past ... an un-yielding narrative of racist ideas, violence and harm. However, the book is also a history of refusals.
