![]() ![]() Kendi mentions, in his introduction, the old spiritual: ‘We shall overcome”. It all sounds quite romantic and yet it works: everyone must focus, in a few words, on half a decade of their history, whilst voicing personal ideas. They are all Black.Įvery piece is relatively equal in length and in this way the ‘historians, journalists, activists, philosophers, novelists, political analysts, lawyers, anthropologists, curators, theologians, sociologists, essayists, economists, educators, poets, and cultural critics’ make up a ‘choir’. He and co-editor, historian Keisha Blain, have taken pains to celebrate diversity in their invitations to people: those ‘who identify (or are identified) as women and men, cisgender and transgender, younger and older, straight and queer, dark-skinned and light-skinned’. From his work, and undoubtedly from his own life experience, Kendi knows what it is to be oppressed. ![]() ![]() Kendi is the founding director of the Boston University Centre for Antiracist Research and has been named, by Time magazine, as one of the world’s 100 most influential people. ![]()
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