Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X Kendi

Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X Kendi

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 discriminatory 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.

Praise for Stamped from the Beginning:

We often describe a wonderful book as 'mind-blowing' or 'life-changing' but I've found this rarely to actually be the case. I found both descriptions accurate for Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning. I will never look at racial discrimination again after reading this marvellous, ambitious, and clear-sighted book. - George Saunders, Financial Times, Best Books of 2017

Ambitious, well-researched and worth the time of anyone who wants to understand racism. --Seattle Times

A deep (and often disturbing) chronicling of how anti-black thinking has entrenched itself in the fabric of American society. --The Atlantic

• Winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction
• A New York Times Bestseller
• A Washington Post Bestseller
• On President Obama's Black History Month Recommended Reading List
• Finalist for the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
• Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Boston Globe, Washington Post, Chicago Review of Books, The Root, Buzzfeed, Bustle, and Entropy

Ibram X. Kendi is a New York Times bestselling author and the Founding Director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. A professor of History and frequent public speaker, Kendi is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, The Black Campus Movement, which won the W.E.B. Du Bois Book Prize, and How to Be an Antiracist.

Ashley Lukashevsky is an illustrator and visual artist who uses illustration and art as a tool to strengthen social movements against systemic racism and sexism. Before moving to illustration full-time, she was the art director at KINDLAND and the social impact designer at LA2050, an initiative to create a positive shared future for all Angelenos. Learn more at her website http: //www.ashleylukashevsky.com or follow her on Instagram @ASHLUKADRAWS.

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ISBN 13	9781568585987
ISBN 10	1568585985
Titel	Stamped from the Beginning
Autor	Ibram X Kendi
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Avalon Publishing Group
Erscheinungsjahr	2017-08-15
Seitenanzahl	592
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.