Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

On August 16, 1635, the hurricane-today judged to be perhaps Category 3-thundered up the Atlantic Coast, brushing Jamestown and passing over eastern Long Island. But nothing brought more destruction to Puritan settlements than the Great Hurricane of 1635. THEY WEATHERED BRUTAL WINTERS, suffered diseases, and learned to cope with the resisting Native Americans. In the process, he gives us reason to hope. In shedding light on this history, Stamped from the Beginning offers us the tools we need to expose racist thinking. They were created to justify and rationalize deeply entrenched discriminatory policies and the nation’s racial inequities. Du Bois, and legendary activist Angela Davis.Īs Kendi shows, racist ideas did not arise from ignorance or hatred. 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. 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.

Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America - it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. Some Americans insist that we’re living in a post-racial society. The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.

Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi