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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- ISBN
- 1529114713
What is this book about?
Ibram X. Kendi traces the history of racist ideas in the United States through its political rhetoric, beginning with Cotton Mather and ending with hip-hop. He challenges common assumptions about what racism is, arguing that even committed anti-racists have absorbed racist ideas.
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