About Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is one of America’s foremost historians and leading antiracist scholars. He is a National Book Award-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of five books for adults and three books for children. Dr. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and the Founding Director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. Dr. Kendi is a contributor writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News Racial Justice Contributor. He is the host of new action podcast Be Antiracist. In 2020, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He was awarded a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the “Genius Grant.”
Inclusive Excellence Scholar in Residence, September 16-17, 2019
- IXK.Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's website, featuring information about him and his work on anti-racism.
Selected Readings
Stamped from the Beginning by Call Number: E185.61 .K358 2016ISBN: 9781568584638Publication Date: 2016
The black campus movement: Black students and the racial reconstitution of higher education, 1965-1972 by Call Number: e-bookISBN: 1137016507Publication Date: 2012
Articles
- Black Doctoral Studies: The Radically Antiracist Idea of Molefi Kete AsanteFrom the Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 49, Issue 6, September 2018, pp. 542-558
- A House Still DividedFrom The Atlantic, October 2018.
- I want you to make history, not be history.From Vital Speeches of the Day, this presents a speech by historian Ibram X. Kendi, delivered at the University of Florida on December 16, 2016.
- Racism Is Not a Teaching ToolFrom The Chronicle of Higher Education, originally published online May 30, 2016.
Interviews
- Ibram X. Kendi Has a Cure for America’s ‘Metastatic Racism’From The New York Times, originally published August 6, 2019.
- The Interview Project: A Conversation with Historian Ibram X. KendiPublished by the Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association on September 19, 2017.
- After Words: Ibram KendiFrom C-SPAN, a video featuring an interview of Dr. Kendi by Imani Perry. Originally published August 20, 2019.
