Summary Of how to be an antiracist by Alma Duncan

He made friends there and enjoyed touting the merits of his HBCU and listening to his peers do the same. The hierarchy of space relates to funding and resources, elevating White spaces in all ways.Īt Temple, the “fishbowl,” or the glassed-in classroom, was the main hangout for Kendi and other African American Studies scholars. Racist power racializes space as it racializes people 'the ghetto,' 'the inner city,' and 'the third world' are all terms that point to this fact. There is good, bad, violence, and peace in all spaces, no matter what color. Such spaces are stigmatized and feared, as if White spaces did not create school shooters and drunk drivers. This is a racist and powerfully misleading idea. Kendi reflects on the idea of the Black space, like the Black neighborhood, as an inherently dangerous space. When he asked what people should strive to do if they could not be objective, she replied that they must tell the truth. She said once in class that it was impossible to be objective, which stuck with Kendi.

His right hand was Professor Ama Mazama, a fiercely intelligent woman who agreed to be Kendi’s dissertation adviser. The most prominent person there was Molefi Kete Asante, who wrote the seminal work Afrocentricity and formed the doctoral program in African American Studies, the first in the nation.

Kendi and his peers called the African American Studies space a Black space (even though, of course, Temple University was governed by and filled with White spaces).

Summary Of how to be an antiracist by Alma Duncan