# Anti-Racism Anti-Racism is the contemporary American (and broader Western) political-philosophical-and-political-coalition-organizational-and-political-cultural framework substantially-organized around substantively-systematic political-opposition to racism, racial-discrimination, and racial-inequality-producing political-economic-cultural-institutional infrastructure. The framework substantially-extends across approximately three centuries of American political-history through substantially-multiple substantively-distinct historical-political-coalition-and-political-philosophical-traditions: substantial pre-Civil-War [[Abolition Movement]] political-coalition-organizational-tradition; substantial post-Civil-War Reconstruction-era political-coalition-organizational-infrastructure-development; substantial post-Reconstruction African-American political-coalition-organizational-tradition ([[Ida B. Wells]], W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, broader contemporary African-American political-coalition-organizational tradition); substantial 20th-century [[Civil Rights Movement]] political-coalition-organizational-tradition (Martin Luther King Jr., A. Philip Randolph, [[Bayard Rustin]], broader Civil-Rights-Movement-era political-coalition-organizational tradition); substantial post-Civil-Rights-Movement-era contemporary American racial-justice political-coalition-organizational-tradition (Black Lives Matter movement, broader contemporary American racial-justice political-coalition-organizational-tradition); substantial contemporary academic-and-cultural-anti-racism political-philosophical-and-political-cultural infrastructure-development. The framework matters for the KB substantially across multiple registers: 1. **Principal contemporary American racial-justice political-coalition-organizational-and-political-philosophical-tradition documentary anchor.** Anti-Racism is one of the principal contemporary American racial-justice political-coalition-organizational-and-political-philosophical-traditions. Tracking the tradition is essential to engaging with broader contemporary American racial-justice political-coalition-and-organizational analytical-literature. 2. **Foundational tradition for contemporary anti-CRT / "patriotic education" / [[Cultural Marxism]] political-cultural-environment-target.** Anti-Racism is the foundational tradition for the substantial target of contemporary anti-CRT / "patriotic education" / Cultural Marxism political-cultural-environment. Tracking the tradition is essential to engaging with broader contemporary American right-coded political-cultural-environment analytical-literature. 3. **Contemporary contestation analytical-vocabulary documentary case.** The "anti-racism" / "antiracism" vocabulary substantially-contested across contemporary American political-cultural-environment. Tracking the contestation is useful for engaging with broader contemporary American political-cultural-environment analytical-literature. ## Contemporary Articulation **Ibram X. Kendi's substantial articulation.** Ibram X. Kendi's *How to Be an Antiracist* (2019) substantially-articulates contemporary anti-racism political-philosophical-and-political-cultural-framework. The framework substantially-articulates several substantively-distinct analytical-political-philosophical claims: - **Substantial racism / antiracism binary analytical-framework.** Kendi substantially-articulates substantial racism / antiracism binary analytical-framework — political-philosophical-and-political-action either substantially-anti-racist (substantively-organized to oppose racial-inequality-producing political-economic-cultural-institutional infrastructure) or substantially-racist (substantively-organized to preserve or substantially-permit racial-inequality-producing political-economic-cultural-institutional infrastructure). The substantial binary framework substantially-rejects substantively-neutral political-philosophical-and-political-action analytical-category. - **Substantial policy-and-institutional-emphasis framework.** Kendi substantially-emphasizes policy-and-institutional analytical-political-action framework over substantially-individual-attitudinal-or-cultural analytical-political-action framework. The substantial emphasis substantially-distinguishes Kendi-articulation from substantively-individual-and-cultural-emphasis anti-racism analytical-frameworks. - **Substantial structural-racism analytical-framework.** Kendi substantially-articulates structural-racism analytical-framework substantially-attributing contemporary American racial-inequality patterns to substantial structural-political-economic-and-cultural-institutional infrastructure rather than to substantially-individual-attitudinal-or-cultural analytical-categories. **Robin DiAngelo's substantial articulation.** Robin DiAngelo's *White Fragility* (2018) substantially-articulates substantively-distinct contemporary anti-racism political-philosophical-and-political-cultural-framework. The framework substantially-emphasizes substantial individual-attitudinal-and-cultural analytical-frameworks within substantial broader anti-racism political-philosophical-and-political-cultural-tradition. The framework substantially-influential across contemporary American corporate-and-institutional anti-racism political-cultural-education-and-training infrastructure-development. **Broader contemporary scholarly-and-cultural infrastructure.** Substantial contemporary American academic-and-cultural anti-racism political-philosophical-and-political-cultural infrastructure-development across multiple substantively-distinct disciplinary contexts (sociology, history, education, public-health, urban-planning, public-policy, and adjacent disciplines). ## Contemporary Contestation **Anti-CRT / "patriotic education" political-mobilization.** Substantial post-2020 contemporary American right-coded anti-CRT / "patriotic education" political-mobilization substantially-targets contemporary anti-racism political-philosophical-and-political-cultural framework. The substantial-mobilization substantially-conflates anti-racism with [[Critical Race Theory]] (substantially-distinct intellectual-and-political-philosophical traditions); the substantial-mobilization substantially-characterizes contemporary anti-racism as substantively-anti-American political-cultural-environment. **[[Cultural Marxism]] conspiratorial-framework deployment.** The contemporary Cultural-Marxism conspiratorial-framework substantially-targets contemporary anti-racism as principal political-philosophical-target. The framework substantially-conflates contemporary anti-racism with substantially-broader contemporary academic-and-cultural-progressive analytical-activity. **Conservative-political-coalition-internal contestation.** Substantial portion of contemporary American conservative political-coalition substantially-contests contemporary anti-racism political-philosophical-and-political-cultural framework. The substantial-contestation substantially-deploys "color-blind constitutionalism" political-philosophical-framework (substantially-derived from Justice Harlan's *Plessy v. Ferguson* dissent and Justice Roberts's *Students for Fair Admissions* majority-opinion) against substantial contemporary anti-racism political-philosophical-and-political-cultural framework. **Left-internal contestation.** Substantial portion of contemporary American progressive-political-coalition substantially-contests Kendi-and-DiAngelo articulations of contemporary anti-racism political-philosophical-and-political-cultural framework. The substantial-contestation substantially-engages with analytical-claims of Kendi-and-DiAngelo articulations while substantially-preserving broader anti-racism political-philosophical-and-political-coalition-organizational-commitment. ## Why It Matters for the KB **Principal contemporary American racial-justice political-coalition-organizational-and-political-philosophical-tradition documentary anchor.** Anti-Racism is one of the principal contemporary American racial-justice political-coalition-organizational-and-political-philosophical-traditions. Tracking the tradition is essential to engaging with broader contemporary American racial-justice political-coalition-and-organizational analytical-literature. **Foundational tradition for contemporary right-coded political-cultural-environment-target.** Anti-Racism is the foundational tradition for the substantial target of contemporary anti-CRT / "patriotic education" / Cultural Marxism political-cultural-environment. Tracking the tradition is essential to engaging with broader contemporary American right-coded political-cultural-environment analytical-literature. **Contemporary contestation analytical-vocabulary documentary case.** The "anti-racism" / "antiracism" vocabulary substantially-contested across contemporary American political-cultural-environment. Tracking the contestation is useful for engaging with broader contemporary American political-cultural-environment analytical-literature. ## See Also - [[Critical Race Theory]] — adjacent contemporary American racial-justice political-philosophical-tradition - [[White Nationalism]] — the principal contemporary anti-Concept - [[New Jim Crow]] — adjacent contemporary American racial-justice political-philosophical-tradition - [[Jim Crow Era]] — adjacent historical-political-legal-regime - [[Lynching]] — adjacent historical-violence-pattern - [[Civil Rights Movement]] — the principal contemporary American historical racial-justice political-coalition-organizational movement - [[Black Lives Matter Movement]] — the principal contemporary American racial-justice political-coalition-organizational movement - [[Abolition Movement]] — the principal historical American racial-justice political-coalition-organizational movement - [[White Supremacy]] — the principal political-philosophical-and-political-coalition-anti-target - [[Cultural Marxism]] — the contemporary conspiratorial-framework substantially-targeting contemporary anti-racism political-philosophical-tradition