Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age by Kendi, Ibram X.
Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age by Kendi, Ibram X.

Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age

The National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning charts how "great replacement theory" has become...
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Author: Ibram X. Kendi
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Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age by Kendi, Ibram X.

Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age

$115.99 $60.00
Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age by Kendi, Ibram X.

Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age

$115.99 $60.00
Author: Ibram X. Kendi
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
The National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning charts how "great replacement theory" has become a dominant political idea of our time and ushered in an antidemocratic age.

"[Kendi] has a gift for tracing how historical ideas metastasize into present, real-world damage. . . . Kendi reveals the mechanics behind the myth, and why confronting it is now a democratic necessity."--Oprah Daily

NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2026 BY: The New York Times, Oprah Daily, LitHub, Foreign Policy, The Millions

Recall 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.

The 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.

In Chain of Ideas, 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.

Author: Ibram X. Kendi
Publisher: One World
Published: 03/17/2026
Pages: 592
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.36h x 5.68w x 1.66d
ISBN: 9780593978023


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2026
Publishers Weekly 01/26/2026
Booklist 02/01/2026

About the Author
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is a professor of history and the founding director of the Howard University Institute for Advanced Study, an interdisciplinary research enterprise examining global racism. He is the author of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning and the international bestseller How to Be an Antiracist and has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the Genius Grant.
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