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Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America

Title
Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America / Ibram X. Kendi.
Author
Kendi, Ibram X.
Publication
New York : Nation Books, [2016]

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Description
viii, 582 pages; 25 cm
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 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.
Alternative Title
Definitive history of racist ideas in America
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • History.
  • Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 516-561) and index.
Awards (note)
  • National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2016
Contents
Cotton Mather. Human hierarchy -- Origins of racist ideas -- Coming to America -- Saving souls, not bodies -- Black hunts -- Great awakening -- Thomas Jefferson. Enlightenment -- Black exhibits -- Created equal -- Uplift suasion -- Big bottoms -- Colonization -- William Lloyd Garrison. Gradual equality -- Imbruted or civilized -- Soul -- The impending crisis -- History's emancipator -- Ready for freedom? -- Reconstructing slavery -- Reconstructing blame -- 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 -- 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.
Call Number
Sc E 16-625
ISBN
  • 9781568584638
  • 1568584636
  • 9781568585987
  • 1568585985
LCCN
  • 2015033671
  • 40025968975
OCLC
914195500
Author
Kendi, Ibram X., author.
Title
Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America / Ibram X. Kendi.
Publisher
New York : Nation Books, [2016]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 516-561) and index.
Awards
National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2016
Local Subject
Black author.
Other Standard Identifier
40025968975
Research Call Number
Sc E 16-625
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