STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING

u003cbu003eThe National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.u003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e 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.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e 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. u003ciu003eHeu003c/iu003e 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.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e 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.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e In shedding light on this history, u003ciu003eStamped from the Beginningu003c/iu003e offers us the tools we need to expose racist thinking. In the process, he gives us reason to hope.