Stamped from the Beginning
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi is a 2016 Science & Technology book written by TED speaker Ibram X. Kendi, paired here with the talk they gave.
The pairing
- Paired talk: "The difference between being "not racist" and antiracist" (2020), 3.2M views on TED.com
- Timing: Published 4 years before the talk.
- In the catalogue: The 1st of 5 books by Ibram X. Kendi on Books Worth Reading (2016–2022), by publication year.
- Edition: PublicAffairs, 2016 · 599 pages
- Collections: National Book Award Winners
The paired TED talk
The difference between being "not racist" and antiracist (2020), the TED talk by Ibram X. Kendi.
From the publisher
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. He uses 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 Beginning offers us the tools we need to expose racist thinking. In the process, he gives us reason to hope.