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Stamped from the Beginning
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About Stamped from the Beginning
Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (2016) won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and traces the intellectual genealogy of racist ideas in America from the colonial period to the present. Organized around five historical figures — Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Angela Davis — the book argues that racist ideas were created to justify racist policies rather than the reverse, challenging the common assumption that racism is primarily a matter of ignorance or hatred. Essential companion to Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist (2019).
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