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

2 reviews

stephmcoakley's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Deadnaming, Ableism, Addiction, Chronic illness, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Murder, Racism, Torture, Gun violence, Hate crime, Police brutality, Bullying, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, War, Drug abuse, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Grief, Cursing, Death, and Racial slurs

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

This book takes us from our nation’s inception through the presidency of Barack Obama. It highlights three main race ideologies and explicates about each one over the decades. Segregationists, those who believe Black folx are genetically inferior and don’t believe in equality; assimilationists, who believe that Black people need to try harder to become better people (aka more white); and antiracists, who believe that systems of inequality and discrimination have always been the culprit of inequity in American society. This book points out that both segregationists and assimilationists are racist, even if the latter would try to have you believe otherwise. I learned a lot about our country’s history, policies, and leaders that will help inform my continued efforts to be antiracist moving forward and will help me focus on Black freedom in this country and beyond.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Genocide, Islamophobia, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, War, and Xenophobia