In Locating Racism in the World, Ainsley LeSure develops a worldly theory of racism rooted in the analytic promise of phenomenology, a philosophical examination of lived experience, that perfects our understanding of the existential threat racism poses to American democracy in the twenty-first century. To do this, the book is situated at the intersection of political theory and black studies and critically engages two literatures that rarely substantively engage each other—the post-Civil Rights literature on (antiblack) racism and Afropessimist text on antiblackness. Through analyzing central critical theory texts in political theory and black studies written by Kwame Ture [formerly Stokley Carmichael], Charles V. Hamilton, Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt, Saidiya Hartman, and Hortense Spillers, Locating Racism in the World suggests that racism is best understood as a reality-violating common sense generated and perfected through racist practices that produce a white, antiblack world. And because of the way that racism violates, appropriates, and distorts reality, racism is always a democratic problem. Checking racial common sense, then, is essential to the health of any democracy and it is done when democratic politics foster conditions for the world to appear, that is, when it restores the public gauge of reality that racial common sense always destroys to erect its dominative symbolic power. To do this, democratic politics must be actualized as wordly space where citizens get to live equality as a substantive reality in their everyday lives.