Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
<b>The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.<br><br></b>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.<br> <br> 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. <em>He</em> 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.<br><br> 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.<br><br>In shedding light on this history, <i>Stamped from the Beginning </i>offers us the tools we need to expose racist thinking. In the process, he gives us reason to hope.<br><br><b>Praise for <i>Stamped from the Beginning:</i></b><br><br>"We often describe a wonderful book as <b>'mind-blowing'</b> or <b>'life-changing'</b> 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 <b>marvellous</b>, <b>ambitious</b>, and <b>clear-sighted</b> book." - George Saunders, <i>Financial Times</i>, Best Books of 2017<br><br>"<b>Ambitious, well-researched</b> and worth the time of anyone who wants to understand racism." - Seattle Times<br><br>"A <b>deep (and often disturbing)</b> chronicling of how anti-black thinking has entrenched itself in the fabric of American society." - The Atlantic<br><br><ul><li><b>Winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction</b></li><li><b>A <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller</b></li><li><b>A <i>Washington Post</i> Bestseller</b></li><li><b>On President Obama's Black History Month Recommended Reading List<br></b></li><li><b>Finalist for the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction</b></li><li><b>Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the <i>Boston Globe</i>, <i>Washington Post</i>, <i>Chicago Review of Books</i>, <i>The Root</i>, <i>Buzzfeed</i>, <i>Bustle</i>, and <i>Entropy</i></b></li></ul><br><br>