Stamped from the Beginning

The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

    • 3.6 • 393 Ratings
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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2016
April 12
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
592
Pages
PUBLISHER
PublicAffairs
SELLER
Hachette Digital, Inc.
SIZE
4.8
MB

Customer Reviews

ttrashhhhhh ,

Ignore the bad reviews

All the 1 stars are from angry White people

BitterReview ,

The One Star Reviews…

The brief and nonsensical one-star reviews demonstrate pretty effectively that their writers did not actually read this work.

If they had, it would have become very apparent that the author has no problem whatsoever with “white people,” but with racism and racist complacency. And if those reviewers can’t separate an entire race from those negative concepts, then perhaps their time would be better spent in self-reflection than in writing uninspired and factually inaccurate reviews based on fear-mongering nonsense.

“Stamped From the Beginning” does an excellent job at taking a historical look at the progression of racist and anti-racist ideas throughout the history of the United States. While certain sections might lean a little too far into their density and a metaphor or two (personally( fell flat, I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend this book to someone who would like to better understand the role of race and racist ideas throughout US history.

KacyThW ,

Fragile Whites

All one stars come from rednecks lol. How are you mad about what exactly happened by your ancestors

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