num_pages: 592
description: In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative Kendi chronicles the entire story of antiBlack racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. Stamped from the Beginning uses the lives of five major American intellectuals to offer a window into the contentious debates between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and anti-racists. From Puritan minister Cotton Mather to Thomas Jefferson from fiery abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison to brilliant scholar W. E. B. Du Bois to legendary antiprison activist Angela Davis Kendi shows how and why some of our leading pro-slavery and procivil rights thinkers have challenged or helped cement racist ideas in America.As Kendi illustrates racist thinking did not arise from ignorance or hatred. Racist ideas were created and popularized in an effort to defend deeply entrenched discriminatory policies and to rationalize the nations racial inequities in everything from wealth to health. While racist ideas are easily produced and easily consumed they can also be discredited. In shedding muchneeded light on the murky history of racist ideas Stamped from the Beginning offers tools to expose themand in the process reason to hope.
language: English
title: Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
publisher: Bold Type Books