Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America /

Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America / Ibram X. Kendi.

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"Americans like to insist that we are living in a postracial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, racist ideas in this coun...

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Main Author: Kendi, Ibram X. (Author)
Other title:Definitive history of racist ideas in America.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Nation Books, [2016]
Subjects:
Racism > United States > History.
Race relations.
Racism.
United States > Race relations.
United States.
Biographies.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Cotton Mather. Human hierarchy
  • Origins of racist ideas
  • Coming to America
  • Saving souls, not bodies
  • Black hunts
  • Great awakening
  • Part II. Thomas Jefferson. Enlightenment
  • Black exhibit
  • Created equal
  • Uplift suasion
  • Big bottoms
  • Colonization
  • Part III. William Lloyd Garrison. Gradual equality
  • Imbruted or civilized
  • Soul
  • The impending crisis
  • History's emancipator
  • Ready for freedom?
  • Reconstructing slavery
  • Reconstructing blame
  • Part IV. W.E.B. Du Bois. Renewing the south
  • Southern horrors
  • Black Judases
  • Great white hopes
  • The Birth of a Nation
  • Media suasion
  • Old deal
  • Freedom brand
  • Massive resistance
  • Part V. Angela Davis. The act of civil rights
  • Black power
  • Law and order
  • Reagan's drugs
  • New Democrats
  • New Republicans
  • 99.9 percent the same
  • The extraordinary Negro
  • Epilogue.

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