Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive
History of Racist Ideas in America (National Book Award Winner)
by Ibram X. Kendi
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The 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.
Praise for Stamped from the
Beginning:
"We often describe a
wonderful book as 'mind-blowing' or 'life-changing' but I've found this rarely
to actually be the case. I found both descriptions accurate for Ibram X.
Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning... I will never look at racial
discrimination again after reading this marvellous, ambitious, and
clear-sighted book." - George Saunders, Financial Times, Best Books of
2017
"Ambitious,
well-researched and worth the time of anyone who wants to understand
racism." - Seattle Times
"A deep (and often
disturbing) chronicling of how anti-black thinking has entrenched itself in the
fabric of American society." - The Atlantic
- Winner of the 2016 National
Book Award for Nonfiction
- A New York Times Bestseller
- A Washington Post Bestseller
- Finalist for the 2016
National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
- Named one of the Best Books
of the Year by the Boston Globe, - Washington Post, Chicago Review of Books,
The Root, Buzzfeed, Bustle, and Entropy
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