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.</b> <p/> 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. <p/> 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. <i>He</i> 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. <p/> 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. <p/> 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>Author:</b> Ibram X. Kendi<br><b>Publisher:</b> Bold Type Books<br><b>Published:</b> 06/20/2023<br><b>Pages:</b> 736<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 1.65lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 9.10h x 6.00w x 2.00d<br><b>ISBN