Antiracist Baby is a 2020 children's book written by Ibram X. Kendi and illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky.
The book, inspired by the author's four-year-old daughter,[1] was conceived as a tool for discussing racism with young children.
[2][3] The book proposes nine steps for discussing racism, with the ultimate goal of teaching children to be antiracist.
[22] During the 2022 Ketanji Brown Jackson Supreme Court nomination hearing in the Senate, Antiracist Baby was brought up as an issue by Ted Cruz when questioning Ketanji Brown Jackson about her opinions of critical race theory, as she was a board member at Georgetown Day School, a private school in Washington, D.C., that had the book in their curriculum.
Then nominee Brown-Jackson replied, saying that "I don't believe that any child should be made to feel as though they are racist or though they are not valued or less than, or victims, oppressors.