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.Praise for Stamped from the Beginning:We often describe a wonderful book as
'mind-blowing' or 'life-changing' 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 marvellous ambitious and clear-sighted
book. - George Saunders Financial Times Best Books of 2017Ambitious well-researched and
worth the time of anyone who wants to understand racism. --Seattle TimesA deep (and often
disturbing) chronicling of how anti-black thinking has entrenched itself in the fabric of
American society. --The AtlanticWinner of the 2016 National Book Award for NonfictionA New York
Times BestsellerA Washington Post BestsellerOn President Obama's Black History Month
Recommended Reading ListFinalist for the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for
NonfictionNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by the Boston Globe Washington Post Chicago
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