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Ibram X. Kendi - Stamped from the Beginning, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

Stamped from the Beginning

The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Av Ibram X. Kendi

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**NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM**Stamped from the Beginning is a redefining history of anti-Black racist ideas that dramatically changes our understanding of the causes and extent of racist thinking itself.Its deeply researched and fast-moving narrative chronicles the journey of racist ideas from fifteenth-century Europe to present-day America through the lives of five major intellectuals - Puritan minister Cotton Mather, President Thomas Jefferson, fiery abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, brilliant scholar W.E.B. Du Bois, and legendary anti-prison activist Angela Davis - showing how these ideas were developed, disseminated and eventually enshrined in American society.Contrary to popular conception, it reveals that racist ideas did not arise from ignorance or hatred. Instead, they were devised and honed by some of the most brilliant minds of each era, including anti-slavery and pro-civil rights advocates, who used their gifts and intelligence wittingly or otherwise to rationalize and justify existing racial disparities in everything from wealth to health.Seen in this piercing new light, racist ideas are shown to be the result, not the cause, of inequalities that stretch back over centuries, brought about ultimately through economic, political, and cultural self-interest.In forcing us to reconsider our most basic assumptions about racism and also about ourselves, Stamped from the Beginning leads us to a true understanding on which to build a real foundation for change.**INCLUDED IN BARACK OBAMA'S BLACK HISTORY MONTH READING LIST**
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2017-07-06
  • Mått: 156 x 235 x 45 mm
  • Vikt: 698 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 592
  • Förlag: Vintage Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781847924957
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Ibram X. Kendi is one of the world's leading antiracist scholars. He is Professor of History and the inaugural director of the Howard University Institute for Advanced Studies. His many books include Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and How To Be an Antiracist, which was a number one New York Times bestseller and a Sunday Times bestseller. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Genius Grant, and in 2020 Time named Kendi one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

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A staggering intellectual history

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2 recensioner, genomsnitt 3/5

  1. 3/5 Mike H

    There is plenty to digest in this book, and I was going to write a good review until I started checking the facts and statistics which didn't add up.

    The issue of Christian compromise with the theory of evolution is evident, and so christianity is seen in a poor light. The clash between Republicans and Democrats is illuminating, especially for non-American readers.

    Favourite stories such as Tarzan are presented as promoting racism. At first it seems to be just finding racism everywhere where a blakc or coloured person is involved in a story, but there may be some truth in it. As readers and viewers, we are targets for manipulation in our thinking.

    The catergorisation of people into three groups was helpful. Segregationists, ant-racists and assimilationists, yet in some way they were all racists. Very well explained.

    In the end, the book includes others who experience discrimination for different reasons, and shows it's left leanings. Discrimination is not good, but then not all behaviours are good either.

    References and index provided.

  2. 3/5 Ranasha R

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