Name: | Stamped from the Beginning |
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By: | Ibram X. Kendi |
Narrated by: | Christopher Dontrell Piper |
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Length | 19 hrs and 8 mins |
Category: | Biographies & Memoirs, Historical |
Release Date: | 2017-01-30 |
Language: | English |
Ibram X. Kendi is an American historian and author who specializes in race and discrimination. He is the founding director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University. He has written several books on the topic of racism, including Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. Kendi is also a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine.
The series of work that will be written is a series of articles about the history of the United States. The series will cover the period from the American Revolution to the present day.
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America is a book by Ibram X. Kendi. The book was published in 2016 by Nation Books.
Kendi’s book argues that there is no such thing as a “not racist” person, only those who are actively fighting racism. The book has been described as “a masterful history of how racist ideas have been used to justify discrimination and oppression in the United States”
The book was a finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and won the Pulitzer Prize for History.
If you’re interested in learning about the history of racism in America, I highly recommend Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi. In it, Kendi expertly weaves together the stories of five major anti-racist movements in America’s past, providing crucial context for understanding our present.
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