The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. 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. Heuses 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 Beginningoffers us the tools we need to expose racist thinking. In the process, he gives us reason to hope. Praise forStamped from the Beginning:"We often describe a wonderful book as'mind-blowing'or'life-changing'but I've found this rarely to actually be the case. I found both descriptions accurate for Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning... I will never look at racial discrimination again after reading thismarvellous, ambitious, andclear-sightedbook." - George Saunders, Financial Times, Best Books of 2017"Ambitious, well-researchedand worth the time of anyone who wants to understand racism." -Seattle Times"Adeep (and often disturbing)chronicling of how anti-black thinking has entrenched itself in the fabric of American society." -The AtlanticWinner of the 2016 National Book Award for NonfictionANew York TimesBestsellerAWashington PostBestsellerOn President Obama's Black History Month Recommended Reading ListFinalist for the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by theBoston Globe, Washington Post, Chicago Review of Books, The Root, Buzzfeed, Bustle, andEntropy | Stamped From The Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi, Paperback | Indigo Chapters