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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
8 reviews
crybabybea's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, Murder, Colonisation, Police brutality, Sexual assault, Xenophobia, Slavery, Addiction, Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexual violence, Torture, and War
asainspace's review
4.5
Graphic: Racism, Death, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Slavery, Suicide, and Rape
Moderate: Trafficking and Genocide
Minor: Islamophobia and War
kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Bullying, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Genocide, Islamophobia, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, War, and Xenophobia
meganpbennett's review
5.0
My only complaint about Stamped is how Kendi introduces the reader to people. He will describe the person, saying where they were from, maybe what job they held, and why they are important in the moment they are mentioned. Only then will he name the person. Most of those paragraphs would have been much more powerful had the person in question been identified in the first sentence, instead of in the second or third sentence.
Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Slavery, Police brutality, Death, Sexual assault, Genocide, and Misogyny
Moderate: Homophobia
nytephoenyx's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, and Slavery
Moderate: Police brutality
Minor: Homophobia and Sexual assault
decklededgess's review
5.0
Perhaps the most depressing yet enlightening tidbit was in the epilogue where the author says something along the lines of: you can't expect people to be altruistic but they certainly can function with "intelligent self interest" to see that the systems they protect actually do not help them at all.
Which....yeah dude that's exactly it.
Moderate: Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, and Slavery
sherbertwells's review
4.0
“Time and again, racist ideas have not been cooked up from the boiling pot of ignorance and hate. Time and again, powerful and brilliant men and women have produced racist ideas in order to justify the racist policies of their era, in order to redirect the blame for their era’s racial disparities away from those policies and onto Black people.”
“Frankly speaking, for generations of Americans, racist ideas have been their common sense. The simple logic of racist ideas has manipulated millions over the years, muffling the more complex antiracist reality again and again” (4)
“No power lasts forever. There will come a time when Americans will realize that the only thing wrong with Black people is that they think something is wrong with Black people. There will come a time wehn racist ideas will no longer obstruct us from seeing the complete and utter abnormality of racial disparities. There will come a time when we will love humanity, when we will gain the courage to fight for an equitable society for our beloved humanity, knowing, intelligently, that when we fight for humanity, we are fighting for ourselves. There will come a time. Maybe, just maybe, that time is now” (511)
Graphic: Racism and Slavery
Moderate: Sexism, Medical trauma, Medical content, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence
Minor: Genocide and Homophobia
anigoose's review
5.0
It's not a knock on those who made it, or even a complaint, just a head's up for other folks with sensory processing issues!
Graphic: Slavery, Racism, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Trafficking, Hate crime, Genocide, and Misogyny
Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Medical content, and Ableism