Stamped From The Beginning The Definitive History Of Racist Ideas In America
Trade paperback edition in very good condition.
“From their arrival around 1619, African people had illegally resisted legal slavery. They had thus been stamped for the beginning as criminals.”
Stamped From The Beginning is 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-racist society, but racist thought is not just alive and well in America—it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. Award winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues that racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. 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 Kendi offers us the tools we need to expose racist thinking. In the process, he gives us reason to hope.
Trade paperback edition in very good condition.
“From their arrival around 1619, African people had illegally resisted legal slavery. They had thus been stamped for the beginning as criminals.”
Stamped From The Beginning is 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-racist society, but racist thought is not just alive and well in America—it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. Award winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues that racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. 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 Kendi offers us the tools we need to expose racist thinking. In the process, he gives us reason to hope.
Trade paperback edition in very good condition.
“From their arrival around 1619, African people had illegally resisted legal slavery. They had thus been stamped for the beginning as criminals.”
Stamped From The Beginning is 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-racist society, but racist thought is not just alive and well in America—it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. Award winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues that racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. 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 Kendi offers us the tools we need to expose racist thinking. In the process, he gives us reason to hope.
ISBN 978-1-56858-598-7
Ibram X. Kendi
2016
National Book Award Winner 2016