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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Stan Getz Library | E185.61 .K46 2017 | 37684001101446 | Getz Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Collection | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available | - |
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- ISBN: 1568585985
- ISBN: 9781568585987
- ISBN: 9781568584638
- ISBN: 1568584636
- Physical Description: xi, 583 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First trade paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Bold Type Books, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
General Note: | "First trade paperback edition: August 2017"--Title page verso. With a new preface for this edition (pages ix-xi). Includes Reading Group Guide |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages ... Read More |
Formatted Contents Note: | Preface to the paperback edition -- Prologue 1 -- ... Read More |
Summary, etc.: | Americans like to insist that we are living in a ... Read More |
Awards Note: | National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2016. |
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Summary:
Americans like to insist that we are living in a postracial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious. And as historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas in this country have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. Stamped from the Beginning uses the lives of five major American intellectuals to offer a window into the contentious debates between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and antiracists. From Puritan minister Cotton Mather to Thomas Jefferson, from fiery abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison to brilliant scholar W.E.B. Du Bois to legendary anti-prison activist Angela Davis, Kendi shows how and why some of our leading proslavery and pro-civil rights thinkers have challenged or helped cement racist ideas in America. As Kendi provocatively illustrates, racist thinking did not arise from ignorance or hatred. Racist ideas were created and popularized in an effort to defend deeply entrenched discriminatory policies and to rationalize the nation's racial inequities in everything from wealth to health. While racist ideas are easily produced and easily consumed, they can also be discredited--From publisher's website.