Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

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A National Book Award winner

The New York Times bestselling history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.

“An engrossing and relentless intellectual history of prejudice in America.” -Washington Post

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. 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. As Kendi shows, racist ideas did not arise from ignorance or hatred. They were created to justify and rationalize deeply entrenched racist 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 and, in the process, gives us reason to hope.

A National Book Award winner The New York Times bestselling history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. “An engrossing and relentless intellectual history of prejudice in America.” -Washington Post Some Americans insist that we’re living in a post-raci...

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IG Music
July 16, 2021
It's easy to be negative about something when you only look and talk about the bad parts. Why it's easy for me to give you a one star review. America was the first nation in the world that started laws in which stopped slavery. Confederation Congress go look it up. As well as the constitution that every man, woman and individual would have the rights to freedom and their own lives, an American only ideology. The execution of America's value's and hopes has never been the greatest but our country is far from racist. We're not imprisoning an entire race like china with the Uyghurs. We were not rated the highest place for modern day slavery, i.e Africa where 9.2 million Africans still live in slavery. 29% of our people are not intolerant of black people like Denmark either. So I ask again is America truly racist? Or are you just pushing one sided narratives to push your agenda and sales. To profit for yourself while throwing your own country, your own people under the bus. Shame on you.
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Paul T Sjordal
January 11, 2022
Ibram X Kendi leads a group of academics that study racism. Very thought-provoking. One need only look at the reviews from the dumbest degenerates to see why you should read this book. If white supremacists hate it that much, you know it must be good.
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A Google user
March 26, 2019
I cant view anything the same way anymore, although everything has its explanation most conflicts should now be resolved due to the expulsion of moral ideas back then. we have changed as people those realities shouldnt exist.
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About the author

Ibram Kendi is a National Book Award-winning author of sixteen books for adults and children including the New York Times bestseller, How to Be an Anti-Racist. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, and the director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News racial justice contributor. He lives in Boston, MA. 
Ibram Kendi is a National Book Award-winning author of sixteen books for adults and children including the New York Times bestseller, How to Be an Anti-Racist. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, and the director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research...

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