Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in AmericaThe National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America -- it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. He uses the life stories of five major American intellectuals to drive this history: Puritan minister Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. Du Bois, and legendary activist Angela Davis. As Kendi shows, racist ideas did not arise from ignorance or hatred. They were created to justify and rationalize deeply entrenched discriminatory policies and the nation's racial inequities. In shedding light on this history, Stamped from the Beginning offers us the tools we need to expose racist thinking. In the process, he gives us reason to hope. |
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User Review - Kavinay - LibraryThingSegregation and Anti-Rascism are relatively straightforward, but what Kendi does for the majority of this book is demonstrate how a third narrative in racism, Assimilation, has been interwoven into ... Read full review
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User Review - Castlelass - LibraryThingNon-fiction that chronicles the history of racism in the United States. It is structured around the lifetimes of five individuals: Cotton Mather (1663–1728), Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), William ... Read full review
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| Title | Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America |
| Author | Ibram X. Kendi |
| Publisher | PublicAffairs, 2016 |
| ISBN | 1568584644, 9781568584645 |
| Length | 592 pages |
| Subjects | › › Biography & Autobiography / Historical History / African American & Black History / United States / General Social Science / Discrimination |
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