About the Event
Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At its core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human value; its warped logic extends beyond race, from the way we regard people of different ethnicities or skin colors to the way we treat people of different sexes, gender identities, and body types. Racism intersects with class and culture and geography and even changes the way we see and value ourselves. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas—from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilities—that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves.
Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism. This is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a just and equitable society.
Welcome Remarks and Introduction:
Heike Paul (Bavarian American Academy, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Moderation and Talk:
Mirjam Zadoff (The Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism)
This event is part of the lecture series This is America. Reflections on a Divided Country. It is a collaboration between the Bavarian American Academy and the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism. In this series, renowned intellectuals are invited to examine historical developments and discuss the current political and cultural state of affairs in the United States.
Photo: Ibram X. Kendi ©American University/Jeff Watts
How to Register
This event will be conducted in a hybrid format. No entrance fee.
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Please note: If you attend the event at Amerikahaus, all guests are subject to a bag search and security check without exception. For safety and comfort, as a condition of entry, all bags and coats must be placed in the cloakroom. Our cloakroom service for bags and coats is free of charge and available immediately prior to the event.
About Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News racial justice contributor. He is the host of the new action podcast Be Antiracist. Kendi is the author of many highly acclaimed books including Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, making him the youngest-ever winner of that award. He has also produced five straight #1 New York Times bestsellers, including How to Be an Antiracist, Antiracist Baby, and Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, co-authored by Jason Reynolds. In 2020, Time magazine named Kendi one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He was awarded a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the Genius Grant.
About Mirjam Zadoff
Mirjam Zadoff has been Director of the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism since May 2018. From 2014 to summer 2019 she occupied the Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of Modern History at Indiana University Bloomington. She studied in Vienna, received her doctorate and qualified as a university lecturer in Munich and held guest professorships and fellowships in Zurich, Berkeley, Berlin and Augsburg. Zadoff is the author of numerous articles and the monographs The Red Job. The Life of Werner Scholem and Next Year in Marianske Lazne. Counter-worlds of Jewish Cultures of Modernity, which are translated into several languages.
How to Be an Antiracist
The German translation of Ibram X. Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist has been published by btb Verlag.
Learn more about the German translation of Ibram X. Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
Location
Amerikahaus - Bavarian Center for Transatlantic Relations
Karolinenplatz 3, 80333, Munich
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