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[PDF] Download Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (National Book Award Winner) The National Book Award-winning story of how racist ideas were created, disseminated and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we live in a post-racial society. But racist thinking is not only alive and well in America - it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as the award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi maintains, racist ideas have a long and persistent history, in which almost all of America's great thinkers are accomplices. In this deeply studied and rapid account, Kendi recounts the whole history of racist anti-black ideas and their astounding power in American history. He uses the life stories of five great American intellectuals to drive this story: Puritan Minister Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. Du Bois and the legendary activist Angela Davis. As...

Download or Read Online So You Want to Talk About Race Book Description: In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting yet friendly review of racing in America Widely disseminated reports on aspects of white supremacy - from police violence to the mass incarceration of black Americans - have highlighted racism in our society. However, this is a difficult subject to tackle. How do you tell your roommate that his jokes are racist? Why did your sister-in-law take offense when you asked her to touch her hair - and how do you do it right? How do you explain white privilege to your white privileged friend? In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through topics ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to "model minorities" in an attempt to make what seems impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life. "Oluo giv...