Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America
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Published
New York : Nation Books, [2016].
Format
Book
ISBN
9781568584638, 1568584636, 9781568585987, 1568585985
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Springfield Main Library - Adult
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Springfield Main Library - Adult | 305.800973 KENDI | Available |
Springfield Brightwood Branch - Adult | 305.800973 KENDI | Available |
Springfield East Forest Park Branch - Adult | 305.800973 KENDI | Available |
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Published
New York : Nation Books, [2016].
Physical Desc
viii, 582 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781568584638, 1568584636, 9781568585987, 1568585985
UPC
40025968975
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 516-561) and index.
Description
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 historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas in this country have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. 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--From publisher's website.
Awards
National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2016
Subjects
OCLC Fast Subjects
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