Ibram X. Kendi
Author of How to Be an Antiracist
About the Author
Ibram Xolani Kendi was born in New York City in 1982. He received undergraduate degrees in journalism and African American studies from Florida A&M University in 2004. He worked as a journalist before receiving a doctoral degree in African American studies from Temple University in 2010. He is show more currently an assistant professor of African American history at the University of Florida. He has published fourteen essays in books and academic journals including The Journal of African American History, Journal of Social History, Journal of Black Studies, Journal of African American Studies, and The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture. His first book, The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965-1972, was written under the pen name Ibram H. Rogers. His second book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2016. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Author and historian Ibram X. Kendi at the 2019 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, United States. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84785637
Works by Ibram X. Kendi
Associated Works
The Souls of Black Folk: With The Talented Tenth and The Souls of White Folk (1903) — Introduction, some editions — 480 copies
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- Legal name
- Kendi, Ibram Xolani
- Other names
- Rogers, Ibram H.
- Birthdate
- 1982-08-13
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Education
- Temple University (PhD ∙ African American Studies, 2010)
Florida A & M University (MA|African American Studies, 2007)
Florida A & M University (BA|Journalism, 2004)
Florida A & M University (BA|African American Studies, 2004) - Occupations
- scholar of history and international relations
university professor
historian, Africana studies - Organizations
- American University
Center for Antiracist Research, Boston University
Boston University
University of Florida
The Emancipator (co-founder)
CBS News (show all 8)
The Atlantic
Maroon Visions (founder) - Awards and honors
- MacArthur Fellowship (2021)
Time Magazine (100 Most Influential People in the world, 2020)
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