Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X Kendi

Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X Kendi

A National Book Award winner

The New York Times bestselling history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.

"An engrossing and relentless intellectual history of prejudice in America." -Washington Post

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. 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. As Kendi shows, racist ideas did not arise from ignorance or hatred. They were created to justify and rationalize deeply entrenched racist 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 and, in the process, gives us reason to hope.

IBRAM X.KENDI is an Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York at Oneonta in upstate New York. He has written in the Magazine of Black Studies, Journal of Social History, Journal of African American Studies, Journal of African American History, and The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture on the Black Campus Movement, black power, and Africana Studies. The American History Association, Chicago's Black Metropolis Research Consortium, the Rutgers Center for Historical Studies, and the Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation have all awarded him research grants. Johnson Library & Museum is a public library and museum in Johnson, Texas.