Introducing How to be an Anti-Racist as Shatov

Similar to the way that McWhorter’s book stands in for Stepan Trofimovich, Ibram X. Kendi’s How to be an Anti-Racist stands in for Shatov. It must be emphasized that Shatov is a victim in the novel, and that Kendi’s own binary of racist and anti-racist by default casts him as a victim of racism. This binary should not be mistaken for stupidity, or insan…