UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Ibram X. Kendi, Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 7 at UCSB Campbell Hall.

Historian Kendi is one of the world’s leading scholars of racism and antiracism. As the author of “Stamped from the Beginning,” he became the youngest winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction and has been one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People and a MacArthur Fellow.

In his work “Chain of Ideas,” Kendi traces how “great replacement theory” moved from the margins to a dominant force in global authoritarianism, showing how it erodes democratic norms and outlining how we can confront it and strengthen democracy.

Kendi is one of the world’s foremost historians of racism and a leading antiracist scholar. He is professor of history at Howard University, and the founding director of the Howard Institute for Advanced Study.

Kendi’s “The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America” won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. He also authored the international bestseller “How to Be an Antiracist,” which was described in the New York Times as “the most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.”

In all, Kendi has published 17 books for adults and children, including 11 New York Times Best Sellers, five of which were #1 New York Times Best Sellers.

Time magazine named Kendi one of the 100 Most Influential People in the world. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the Genius Grant.

Tickets are $30 general public, free for UCSB students with current student ID required.
For tickets or more information, call UCSB Arts & Lectures, 805-893-3535, or buy online at www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu.

Ibram X. Kendi is presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures. Justice for All Lead Sponsors: Marcy Carsey, Eva & Yoel Haller, Dick Wolf and Zegar Family Foundation.