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Stamped from the Beginning

Ibram X. Kendi • 2016

Devastation Rating

Ugly Crying
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Kendi traces the history of racist ideas in America from the Puritans to the present, arguing that racism is not born of ignorance but of interest. Each era produces new justifications for the same hierarchy. The scholarship is formidable and the conclusion is bleak.

Appears In

► Slavery Narratives & the Long Shadow of Race ► Anti-Colonial Non-Fiction — The Case Against Empire ► Slavery's Long Shadow — History That Lives in the Present

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