I wish I learned this history at your age. The novelist Jason Reynolds adapted Stamped from the Beginning into this book for you. I chronicled their entire life in Stamped from the Beginning. Born in western Europe in the mid-1400s, racist ideas traveled to colonial America and have lived in the United States from its beginning. Racist and antiracist ideas have lived in human minds for nearly six hundred years. An antiracist idea is any idea that suggests that racial groups are equals. A racist idea is any idea that suggests something is wrong or right, superior or inferior, better or worse about a racial group. The book you’re holding is a remix of my book, Stamped from the Beginning, a narrative history of racist and antiracist ideas. I want you to understand racism today to understand how it is affecting you and America today.
I want to understand racism today to understand how it is affecting me today. I write about the history of racism to understand racism today.
Through a gripping, fast-paced, and energizing narrative written by beloved award-winner Jason Reynolds, this book shines a light on the many insidious forms of racist ideas–and on ways readers can identify and stamp out racist thoughts in their daily lives. It also proves that while racist ideas have always been easy to fabricate and distribute, they can also be discredited. It takes you on a race journey from then to now, shows you why we feel how we feel, and why the poison of racism lingers. Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America, and inspires hope for an antiracist future. The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. The crucial, empowering, #1 New York Times bestselling exploration of racism-and antiracism-in America.Ī book to help us better understand why we are where we are.
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