Stamped from the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped from the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi
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Stamped from the Beginning
The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Author: Ibram X. Kendi

Narrator: Avery Kidd Waddell

Unabridged: 23 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/26/2023

Synopsis

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.

About Ibram X. Kendi

Ibram X. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and the director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is the author of many books, including the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, and the #1 New York Times bestseller How to Be an Antiracist. Time magazine has named Kendi one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the Genius Grant.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chelsea on June 10, 2020

A must read. Edited to add that most libraries are offering the audiobook of this title for free via Hoopla. If you're having trouble getting your hands on a physical copy, or are financially strapped right now, this is a great alternative! Also, Spotify has the entire Stamped audiobook for free at......more

Goodreads review by Paul on July 27, 2017

What’s this – 5 stars yet still marked as “to read”? Please explain yourself! I was talking today with a friend of mine who just joined Goodreads and he raised the question of books which are too difficult to review. These are usually non-fiction books which are so crammed with ideas that to review t......more

Goodreads review by Venesa on November 24, 2024

This book provides a thorough and exhaustive history of racist ideas in America, covering a span of six centuries from the 15th century to the present. It is comprehensive, offering deep insights into the evolution of race relations, but it is not a light read. While the book is dense, slow, and long......more

Goodreads review by Trish on December 13, 2016

The insights and understanding shared with us in this dazzling work of erudition and scholarship entirely make up for its enormous length. One wonders how it can be that such a book has not been written to date, the need for such a work obvious from the moment Kendi begins to trace the evolution of......more

Goodreads review by Dr. Appu on November 30, 2022

Summary Congratulations, Ibram X.Kendi, and Jason Reynolds, for winning the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Nonfiction book this year for the remixed version (condensed adaption for middle-grade readers) of Stamped. This book is structured around five eminent personalities Cotton Mather......more

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