WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION Americans like to
insist that we are living in a postracial, colour-blind society. In
fact, racist thought is alive and well it has simply become more
sophisticated and more insidious. And as award-winning historian
Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning , racist ideas
in this country 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. 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 antiracists. From Puritan
minister Cotton Mather to Thomas Jefferson, from fiery abolitionist
William Lloyd Garrison to brilliant scholar W. E. B. Du Bois to
legendary anti-prison activist Angela Davis, Kendi shows how and
why some of our leading proslavery and pro-civil rights thinkers
have challenged or helped cement racist ideas in America.As Kendi
provocatively 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 nation's racial inequities in everything from
wealth to health. While racist ideas are easily produced and easily
consumed, they can also be discredited. In shedding much-needed
light on the murky history of racist ideas, Stamped from the
Beginning offers us the tools we need to expose them,and in the
process, gives us reason to hope.
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