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Author Kendi, Ibram X., author.

Title Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America / Ibram X. Kendi.

Publication Info. New York : Nation Books, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 582 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 516-561) and index.
Contents Part I. Cotton Mather. Human hierarchy -- Origins of racist ideas -- Coming to America -- Saving souls, not bodies -- Black hunts -- Great awakening -- Part II. Thomas Jefferson. Enlightenment -- Black exhibit -- Created equal -- Uplift suasion -- Big bottoms -- Colonization -- Part III. William Lloyd Garrison. Gradual equality -- Imbruted or civilized -- Soul -- The impending crisis -- History's emancipator -- Ready for freedom? -- Reconstructing slavery -- Reconstructing blame -- Part IV. W.E.B. Du Bois. Renewing the south -- Southern horrors -- Black Judases -- Great white hopes -- The Birth of a Nation -- Media suasion -- Old deal -- Freedom brand -- Massive resistance -- Part V. Angela Davis. The act of civil rights -- Black power -- Law and order -- Reagan's drugs -- New Democrats -- New Republicans -- 99.9 percent the same -- The extraordinary Negro -- Epilogue.
Summary "Americans like to insist that we are living in a postracial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, racist ideas in this country 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. Stamped from the Beginning uses the lives of five major American intellectuals to offer a window into the contentious debates between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and antiracists. From Puritan minister Cotton Mather to Thomas Jefferson, from fiery abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison to brilliant scholar W.E.B. Du Bois to legendary anti-prison activist Angela Davis, Kendi shows how and why some of our leading proslavery and pro-civil rights thinkers have challenged or helped cement racist ideas in America. As Kendi provocatively illustrates, racist thinking did not arise from ignorance or hatred. Racist ideas were created and popularized in an effort to defend deeply entrenched discriminatory policies and to rationalize the nation's racial inequities in everything from wealth to health. While racist ideas are easily produced and easily consumed, they can also be discredited. In shedding much-needed light on the murky history of racist ideas, Stamped from the Beginning offers us the tools we need to expose them--and in the process, gives us reason to hope"--Publisher's description.
Awards National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2016
Access Concurrent user level: 1 user
Subject Racism -- United States -- History.
Racism.
United States.
History.
United States -- Race relations.
Race relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
History.
Subject Racism.
Added Title Definitive history of racist ideas in America
Other Form: Print version: Kendi, Ibram X. Stamped from the beginning. New York : Nation Books, [2016] 9781568584638 (DLC) 2015033671 (OCoLC)914195500
ISBN 1568584644 (electronic book)
9781568584645 (electronic book)
9781568584638 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
1568584636 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 40025968975