Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America /
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Author / Creator: | Kendi, Ibram X., author. |
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Imprint: | New York : Nation Books, [2016] ©2016 |
Description: | viii, 582 pages ; 25 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10767235 |
Summary: | The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. <br> <br> <br> <br> 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.<br> <br> <br> <br> 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.<br> <br> <br> <br> 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.<br> <br> <br> <br> 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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Physical Description: | viii, 582 pages ; 25 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 516-561) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781568584638 1568584636 9781568584645 |