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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Ibram X. Kendi

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#238 of 3,809 books · #78 in History

Won the National Book Award for Nonfiction (2016). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

Stamped from the Beginning won the National Book Award. 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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Publisher
Bold Type Books
ISBN-13
9781645030393
Genre
History
Topics
Racism in AmericaHistory of racist ideasAfrican American history

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