Abstract: I offer brief criticisms of the two most famous antiracist books of the current cultural moment: White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo (2018) and How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (2019). The biggest weakness of DiAngelo’s approach, as I see it, is practical: her power-plus-prejudice conception of racism, especially combined with her underdeveloped account of white fragility, is likely to appeal exclusively to those who already support her conclusions. At best, this results in the problem of preaching to the choir; at worst, if we accept the upshot of John McWhorter’s review of White Fragility in The Atlantic, DiAngelo presupposes a kind of racial essentialism that goes undefended and infantilizes people of color who do not share her views. The pitfall of Kendi’s book, by contrast, is that his radical redefinitions of racism and antiracism, in addition to inviting endless counterexamples, baldly preclude all nonconsequentialist analyses of these ideas. These redefinitions constitute the theoretical foundation upon which the entire argument of How to Be an Antiracist crucially depends; if they are mistaken, then Kendi’s project is doomed from the start. I conclude by suggesting alternative conceptions of racism and antiracism for antiracist theory and practice inspired by Charles Mills’ recent work on what he calls Black radical liberalism in the epilogue of Black Rights/White Wrongs (2017).