Our 2021 Wayland Reads selections are How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi, along with his young adult book with Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You.
Copies are available at the Library. Call 508-358-2311 to reserve one for curbside pick-up. Or find a digital copy on Overdrive/Libby.
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. Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas 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.
The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. This remarkable reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America, and inspires hope for an antiracist future.
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 seven books. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and the Founding Director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. Kendi is a contributor writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News Racial Justice Contributor. He is also the 2020-2021 Frances B. Cashin Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for the Advanced Study at Harvard University. In 2020, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Thursday, February 4, 7:00 PM – White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea with Dean Tyler Stovall – in partnership with the Tewksbury Public Library and Andover’s Memorial Hall Library | Video
Monday, February 22, 7:00 PM – The Power Of Protest Images In The Black Freedom Struggle with Dr. Brenna Greer – in partnership with the Tewksbury Public Library | Video
Sunday, March 21, 2:00 PM – Slavery in Sudbury with Jane Sciacca – in partnership with the Wayland Historical Society | Video
Sunday, April 11, 3:00 PM – Against Civility with Prof. Alex Zamalin| Video
Tuesday, April 22, 7:00 PM – Race, Monuments and Memory: A Panel Discussion – in partnership with First Parish of Wayland | Video
Teen Social Justice Book Group
Tuesday, February 23, 7:00 PM – Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You with the Teen Social Justice Book Group
Thursday, March 18, 7:00 PM – How to Be an Antiracist with the Social Justice Book Group
Wednesday, March 24, 3:00 PM – How to Be an Antiracist with Shaheen Akhtar
Friday, March 26, 10:00 AM – How to Be an Antiracist with Rachel Sideman Kurtz and Karen Blumenfeld
Monday, March 29, 11:00 AM – How to Be an Antiracist with the Rev. Rebecca Cho
Wednesday, March 31, 12:00 PM – How to Be an Antiracist with Rabbi Katy Z. Allen
Thursday, April 1, 1:30 PM – How to Be an Antiracist with Janot Mendler de Suarez
