{"product_id":"stamped-from-the-beginning-the-definitive-history-of-racist-ideas-in-america-national-book-award-winner","title":"Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (National Book Award Winner)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. 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. Du Bois, and legendary activist Angela Davis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Kendi shows, racist ideas did not arise from ignorance or hatred. They were created to justify and rationalize deeply entrenched discriminatory policies and the nation's racial inequities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn shedding light on this history, Stamped from the Beginning offers us the tools we need to expose racist thinking. In the process, he gives us reason to hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Stamped from the Beginning:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We often describe a wonderful book as 'mind-blowing' or 'life-changing' but I've found this rarely to actually be the case. I found both descriptions accurate for Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning... I will never look at racial discrimination again after reading this marvellous, ambitious, and clear-sighted book.\" - George Saunders, Financial Times, Best Books of 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ambitious, well-researched and worth the time of anyone who wants to understand racism.\" - Seattle Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A deep (and often disturbing) chronicling of how anti-black thinking has entrenched itself in the fabric of American society.\" - The Atlantic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction\u003cbr\u003e- A New York Times Bestseller\u003cbr\u003e- A Washington Post Bestseller\u003cbr\u003e- Finalist for the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction\u003cbr\u003e- Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Boston Globe, - Washington Post, Chicago Review of Books, The Root, Buzzfeed, Bustle, and Entropy\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Spine Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51880522187033,"sku":"9781423177661","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/8399\/1833\/files\/9781568584638.jpg?v=1768922963","url":"https:\/\/thespinebookshop.com\/products\/stamped-from-the-beginning-the-definitive-history-of-racist-ideas-in-america-national-book-award-winner","provider":"The Spine Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}