Ibram X. Kendi

National Book Award-winning Historian @HowardU • 11x NYT Bestselling Author • MacArthur Fellow. 🐍🦁🦬

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

📚Book Announcement!📚

The most dangerous racist idea—great replacement theory—has become the most dominant political theory of our time. Great replacement theory and its metastasizing variants claim that White people—along with Christians, citizens, men, heterosexuals, and ethnic majorities—are facing invasions and in need of dictatorial protection. But it is not a new idea: its roots trace back to some of the most harmful ideologies in the history of the modern world. I chart great replacement theory’s reemergence and global spread in my new book, CHAIN OF IDEAS: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age.

Coming March 17, 2026. Pre-order now at the link below and wherever books are sold.

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[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

A quote from my new book.

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How we got here.

[Pam Hemphill (Pamtifa) @PamHemphill79]

I highly recommend you read this book to be better informed why MAGA isn’t going anywhere while Trump is still in office!

[Dr. Stephen G. Hall @historianspeaks]

If you want to understand the anti-DEI and anti-immigrant and increasing fascistic leanings of the nation, see @ibramxk Chain of Ideas. Know our thinkers and read their work. #ChainofIdeas

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Join us this Saturday, April 18 for my dialogue with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, hosted by Chicago Humanities.

We’ll be discussing my new book, CHAIN OF IDEAS, which offers an unsettling yet indispensable global history of how we landed in this authoritarian era, while simultaneously giving us hope for how we can free ourselves from it. Mayor Johnson gives me hope. 🕊️

A small number of tickets are still available here: https://t.co/m9dtp6V2Jl

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“The same idea that Hitler pushed about Jews… that these people were alien to the nation… is precisely what these great replacement politicians are pushing now.”

@ibramxk on the historical connection between Nazi persecution of Jews and the modern 'Great Replacement Theory'

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We spy even more #BCRTXLA members! 📚 Several of our members attended an inspiring evening with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk ! What a meaningful night of conversation, connection, and community centered around his new book, Chain of Ideas! @TXLA

[Juan Mckissick @realjuanmckiss]

An afternoon with @ibramxk
Insightful conversation, powerful perspective, and a reminder to stay intentional in how we think and lead.

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

Good morning, Cambridge. ✨ Good morning, Boston. ✨

I’ll be speaking TONIGHT about my new book, Chain of Ideas, alongside a bold and transformative elected official who has long challenged elements of great replacement theory: Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07). For years, I have been inspired by the radical love for all of us that Congresswoman Pressley has exhibited in her activism and policymaking—the kind of radical love that can lead us out of this authoritarian age. With all that’s been happening in our politics, we have much to discuss tonight. We are hosted by Porter Square Books.✌🏾

See everyone very soon! There are still some tickets available at the link below. ✨

https://t.co/DfaoBScPxw

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“In meticulously researched 500 pages, [Chain of Ideas] lays out an essential framework for parsing current events,” writes Arwa Mahdawi in her review in The Guardian. “Kendi has produced a worthwhile and accessible book that not only helps us to interpret current events but also offers a modicum of hope.”

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Pittsburgh: I’ll be there TONIGHT speaking about my new book, Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age. I’ll be in conversation with a brilliant scholar, Sheila Vélez Martínez, the Jack and Lovell Olender Professor of Asylum Refugee and Immigration Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She is also the Director of Clinical Programs and the Immigration Law Clinic.

Eight years ago, a man massacred eleven Jewish Americans at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue. The shooter wrote, “Diversity means chasing down the last white person.” The shooter believed the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society “likes to bring invaders in that kill our people.” The shooter framed his mass murder as defending “my people” from being “slaughtered.”

These three central concepts of great replacement theory—diversity programs are anti-White, immigrants are murderous “invaders,” and violent action is need to protect White people—are now mainstream. Still justifying political violence. Justifying banning diversity and equity programs. Justifying ICE occupations. Justifying wars of plunder. I chronicle how this dangerous and deadly conspiracy theory went mainstream in Chain of Ideas.

But there can hope and healing from all this. One step is the clarity that can only come from history, from fully understanding what we are up against. See you tonight, Pittsburgh. 💐🫶🏿

Tour tickets: https://t.co/1xjmROtc6R

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Today, as my newest book is released, nearly three-fourths of the world’s people live under authoritarian rule. Many of those authoritarian rulers are pushing a conspiracy theory that tells people that their life, their job, their status, their nation is all being lost, slipping away. And that immigrants, Muslims, Black people, women, queer people, and other disadvantaged groups are taking it all and taking over. All to distract from the oligarchs who are really taking it all and taking over. All to enrage everyday people. All so raging people can demand authoritarian protection from these purported replacers.

This is the world’s most dominant and dangerous idea. And it has a name: GREAT REPLACEMENT THEORY. Authoritarian oligarchs and politicians—and their propagandists—have gone to great lengths to deny and conceal the great replacement theory animating their politics. Because they likely know its horrific history. Because they certainly know we can’t resist an ideological force we can’t recognize, we don’t name.

Until now. Introducing Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age. My most clarifying and urgent and timely book to date. Chain of Ideas—one of the most anticipated books of the year—is out today.

Order at the link below or wherever books are sold.

https://t.co/vNSekVDsvn

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Introducing the complete fliers for my Chain of Ideas book tour in the U.S. With all the moderators. With one new VIRTUAL event on the International Day for the Elimination of Racism.

So let me take this opportunity to thank all the organizers, moderators, and booksellers, as well as the thousands of people planning to come. Keep showing up.👊🏿

Tour 🎟️ https://t.co/1xjmROtc6R

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

It’s here!

As an author, as a scholar, there may be no better feeling than holding years of writing, years of researching, years of reflecting in your hands for the first time. In one week, hopefully this book, Chain of Ideas, will be in your hands.

Pre-order now: https://t.co/vNSekVDsvn

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D-M-V! Save the date: March 19. Save the location: Lincoln Theatre. I’ll be home, speaking about my new book, Chain of Ideas, with Leah Greenberg, the co-founder of Indivisible. Leah and her colleagues are organizing the next “No Kings” demonstrations on March 28. So glad we’ll have the opportunity to discuss the great replacement theory that is powering the rise of authoritarianism. Thank you to Politics & Prose for hosting us. ✌🏾🫶🏿

Tour 🎟️: https://t.co/1xjmROtJWp

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MINNEAPOLIS! Come out on Saturday, March 14. I’ll be engaging the community in a timely conversation on my new book, Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age. ICE’s brutal occupation has been justified by great replacement theory. Chain of Ideas chronicles the reemergence of this conspiracy theory—the world’s most dangerous idea—over the last two decades.

This timely community conversation is hosted by the Black Collective Foundation MN, which has rapidly responded to support immigrant communities and their frontline organizations. Black Garnet Books will be the bookseller. ✨

Tour 🎟️ https://t.co/1xjmROtc6R

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ATLANTA!!! I’ll be there in three weeks on Sunday, March 15. Discussing my new book, CHAIN OF IDEAS. At Glen Memorial. On the campus of Emory University. Shout out to A Cappella Books for hosting!

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In one month, Chain of Ideas will be published. I am counting down the days until I can get this book in your hands. Pre-order now!✌🏾

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UPDATE - Trump nominee Jeremy Carl finally gets a hearing next week in Senate Foreign Relations Committee… another White Nationalist, anti-Semitic, transphobic, xenophobic, misogynist — who has deleted thousands of tweets.

@SenatorHagerty is on the committee. Will he back him?

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

Big thanks to all the people who are grabbing your relatives and friends and tickets for the Chain of Ideas book tour in March! I hinted at this before but now I can share we have added two more stops in Petersburg, Virginia, and St. Louis. Hopefully I’m coming to a town near you. I’m sorry if I am not. Because as we face this authoritarian tidal wave, we have much to discuss and resist. Together.

Tickets: https://t.co/1xjmROtc6R