**SUNDAY TIMES bestseller** Could hardly be more relevant . . . it feels like a light switch being flicked on OWEN JONES Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist. In this rousing and deeply empathetic book; Ibram X. Kendi; founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center; shows that when it comes to racism; neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution; we can only be part of the problem. Using his extraordinary gifts as a teacher and story-teller; Kendi helps us recognise that everyone is; at times; complicit in racism whether they realise it or not; and by describing with moving humility his own journey from racism to antiracism; he shows us how instead to be a force for good. Along the way; Kendi punctures all the myths and taboos that so often cloud our understanding; from arguments about what race is and whether racial differences exist to the complications that arise when race intersects with ethnicity; class; gender and sexuality. In the process he demolishes the myth of the post-racial society and builds from the ground up a vital new understanding of racism - what it is; where it is hidden; how to identify it and what to do about it.