Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
By Ibram X. Kendi
"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."
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Reasons: Racial Content
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America is the original book that inspired the frequently banned and challenged book Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You.
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America was challenged by a board member of the Flagler School District in Florida.
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