Download Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (National Book Award Winner) Book
[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