Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Conventional wisdom says ideas and social concepts drive the creation of political policy; this award-winning book that made its author a bestselling, household name explains how the truth is actually reversed, and policy creates the ideas it needs to justify its existence.
A National Book Award winner
The New York Times bestselling history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.
“An engrossing and relentless intellectual history of prejudice in America.” -Washington Post
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. In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the en...






















