Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. Some Americans insist we are living in a post-racial society, but racist thought is not just alive and well; it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. Kendi argues that racist ideas have a long history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit, using the life stories of figures like Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Angela Davis to drive this narrative.
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 the tools needed to expose racist thinking, and in the process, gives us reason to hope.
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April 12, 2016
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English
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Bold Type Books
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