Stamped from the Beginning

**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**

**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**

The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some 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. In 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. As 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. In 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.

A National Book Award winner The New York Times bestselling history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. "An engrossing and relentless intellectual history of prejudice in America." - Washington Post Some 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. In 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. As Kendi shows, racist ideas did not arise from ignorance or hatred. They were created to justify and rationalize deeply entrenched racist policies and the nation's racial inequities. In shedding light on this history, Stamped from the Beginning offers us the tools we need to expose racist thinking and, in the process, gives us reason to hope.

"Stamped from the Beginning" af Ibram X. Kendi er en gribende fortælling om hvordan racisme blev skabt, indlejret og stadig lever i USA. Nogle tror fejlagtigt på myten om, at USA lever i et post-racialt samfund efter den første sorte præsident blev valgt, og at racismens forbandelse dermed blev ophævet. Men desværre er den racistiske tanke ikke blot stadig i live i Amerika, den er også ondere og dybere end nogensinde før. I "Stamped from the Beginning" argumenterer den prisvindende historiker, Ibram X. Kendi for, at hvis vi på nogen måde skal kunne ændre racismens udbredelse og indflydelse i USA, så må vi først forstå, hvordan racismen opstod og blev en indgribende del af det Amerikanske samfund. "Stamped from the Beginning" er en mageløs og prisvindende bog, der kaster lys på Amerikas historiske skyggesider, og som giver værktøjer til at forandre samfundet og skabe håb for et USA uden racisme.

"Stamped from the Beginning" af Ibram X. Kendi er en gribende fortælling om hvordan racisme blev skabt, indlejret og stadig lever i USA. Nogle tror fejlagtigt på myten om, at USA lever i et post-racialt samfund efter den første sorte præsident blev valgt, og at racismens forbandelse dermed blev ophævet. Men desværre er den racistiske tanke ikke blot stadig i live i Amerika, den er også ondere og dybere end nogensinde før. I "Stamped from the Beginning" argumenterer den prisvindende historiker, Ibram X. Kendi for, at hvis vi på nogen måde skal kunne ændre racismens udbredelse og indflydelse i USA, så må vi først forstå, hvordan racismen opstod og blev en indgribende del af det Amerikanske samfund. "Stamped from the Beginning" er en mageløs og prisvindende bog, der kaster lys på Amerikas historiske skyggesider, og som giver værktøjer til at forandre samfundet og skabe håb for et USA uden racisme.