{"product_id":"chain-of-ideas-the-origins-of-our-authoritarian-age","title":"Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Ibram X. Kendi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne World\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3\/17\/2026, hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9780593978023\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecall the words chanted in Charlottesville, Virginia: \"You will not replace us!\" Recall the string of mass shooters across the globe--in Oslo, Christchurch, Buffalo, El Paso, and Pittsburgh--who claimed their crimes were a defense against \"White genocide.\" Recall business and media figures cultivating anxiety and furor over demographic change. These incidents only scratch the surface: Popular and ruling politicians in every region of the world have expressed some version of great replacement theory, eroding democratic norms in the name of preventing demographic change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe term was coined in 2011 by a French novelist who argued that Black and Brown immigrants were \"invading\" Europe, brought by shadowy elites to \"replace\" the White population. From there, politicians and theorists in the United States and elsewhere repackaged it as a story of \"globalists\" welcoming \"migrant criminals\" and promoting diversity to take away the jobs, cultures, electoral power, and very lives of White people. Over time, great replacement theory has expanded those under threat to include citizens, men, Jews, Christians, heterosexuals, and ethnic majorities in countries as distinct as Russia, El Salvador, Brazil, Italy, and India, all targeted with the message that they are facing an existential attack that only a strongman can prevent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eChain of Ideas\u003c\/i\u003e, internationally bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi offers an unsettling but indispensable global history of how great replacement theory brought humanity into this authoritarian age--and how we can free ourselves from it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In a meticulously researched 500 pages, [\u003ci\u003eChain of Ideas\u003c\/i\u003e] lays out an essential framework for parsing current events....[It] is an ambitious book that covers a lot of ground, intellectual and geographical....Kendi has produced a worthwhile and accessible book [that] helps us to interpret current events [and] also offers a modicum of hope.\"\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Kendi writes that great replacement theory is the 'world's most dangerous idea' as those in power use it to justify creating a white, Christian state by any means necessary.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Root\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eIbram X. Kendi\u003c\/b\u003e is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/stamped-from-the-beginning\" title=\"Stamped from the Beginning\" class=\"text-link\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eStamped from the Beginning\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eThe Black Campus Movement\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the W.E.B. Du Bois Book Prize, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/how-to-be-an-antiracist\" title=\"How to be an Antiracist\" class=\"text-link\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to be an Antiracist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e. He is a professor of history and international relations and the founding director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. One of America's leading antiracist voices and a frequent public speaker, Dr. Kendi is also a columnist at \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives with his family in Washington, D.C.\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51949283279131,"sku":"Chain of Ideas","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/files\/A1MllQivxVL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774888704","url":"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/chain-of-ideas-the-origins-of-our-authoritarian-age","provider":"Burning Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}