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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Ibram X. Kendi

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"A comprehensive history of anti-black racism focuses on the lives of five major players in American history, including Cotton Mather and Thomas Jefferson, and highlights the debates that took place between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and antiracists"--

Themes
Eye-OpeningDeeply ResearchedParadigm-ShiftingSocial JusticeRacism as intellectual inventionPower shapes historical truthAntiracism as active choiceMyths justify systemic oppression
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