Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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 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. In the process, he gives us reason to hope.
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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 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. In the process, he gives us reason to hope.
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

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

by Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

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

by Ibram X. Kendi

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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 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. In the process, he gives us reason to hope.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781568585987
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 08/15/2017
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 608
Sales rank: 127,383
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

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. 

Table of Contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition ix

Prologue 1

Part I Cotton Mather

1 Human Hierarchy 15

2 Origins of Racist Ideas 22

3 Coming to America 31

4 Saving Souls, Not Bodies 47

5 Black Hunts 58

6 Great Awakening 66

Part II Thomas Jefferson

7 Enlightenment 79

8 Black Exhibits 92

9 Created Equal 104

10 Uplift Suasion 120

11 Big Bottoms 135

12 Colonization 143

Part III William Lloyd Garrison

13 Gradual Equality 161

14 Imbruted or Civilized 177

15 Soul 191

16 The Impending Crisis 202

17 History's Emancipator 214

18 Ready for Freedom? 223

19 Reconstructing Slavery 235

20 Reconstructing Blame 248

Part IV W. E. B. Du Bois

21 Renewing the South 263

22 Southern Horrors 269

23 Black Judases 280

24 Great White Hopes 295

25 The Birth of a Nation 308

26 Media Suasion 323

27 Old Deal 335

28 Freedom Brand 349

29 Massive Resistance 365

Part V Angela Davis

30 The Act of Civil Rights 381

31 Black Power 393

32 Law and Order 410

33 Reagan's Drugs 424

34 New Democrats 440

35 New Republicans 456

36 99.9 Percent the Same 469

37 The Extraordinary Negro 482

Epilogue 497

Acknowledgments 513

Notes 516

Index 562

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