Ibram X. Kendi is the Carter G. Woodson Endowed Chair in History at Howard University, and the director of HU’s Institute for Advanced Study. He is the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America and the international bestseller, How to Be an Antiracist. His new book is Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age.
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CHAIN OF IDEAS: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age
The acclaimed author of How to Be an Antiracist and the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning charts how “great replacement theory” has become a dominant political idea of our time and ushered in an antidemocratic age.
Kendi discusses Chain of Ideas, his new history of how "great replacement theory" became the engine of our authoritarian age. He argues that fear of being replaced—racially, culturally, electorally—is what powers strongmen worldwide, and that naming the playbook is a first step toward defeating it.
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