#Non-fiction Stamped From the Beginning
- Author: Ibram X. Kendi (1982)
- Title: Stamped From the Beginning
- Published: 2016 37 chapters, 511 pages
- I read the book + listened to the audio version.
- Audio book: 19 hours 8 minutes
- Trivia: 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction
- Trivia: Kendi teaches history and international relations
- College of Arts and Sciences
- School of International Service at American University
- List of Challenges 2019
- Monthly reading plan
- #20BooksOfSummer
Introduction:
- Stamped From the Beginning is a magnificent book!
- Winner National Book Award 2016 for Non-fiction.
- Part 1 on is 1600s…get through it because in
- Part 2 with the introduction of Jefferson the book starts to sparkle!
- Part 3 Abolitionists…again get through is because
- Part 4 will take you from W.E. Du Bois up to Obama…riveting!
Conclusion:
- If you’ve never read anything about racism in USA…
- ..this probably would be the best place to start!
- The book is a #MustRead for
- …anyone interested in understanding
- contemporary issues in America.
- Ibram X. Kendi is stunningly clear and straightforward.
- The book reads much like a conversation….
- from from pre-colonial times to the present
- …from the slave trade boat to Obama.
- This is an excellent book that all Americans should read.
- …especially in the light of the
- …approaching presidential election 2020.
- It is a long book….requires some commitment.
- I learned that the tactics may have changed but the goal
- …has remained depressingly the same:
- “Do not let them vote!”
- “…If you can find a way to stop them,
- ….stop them!” (black Americans)
- This resulted in 2000 Bush winning Florida by 537 votes
- …and being elected president!
- This book certainly has made me reflect
- …on and rethink my own views about race.
- I wonder what will happen in elections 2020 to prevent
- …black Americans voicing their choice.
Last thoughts:
- This is a very informative and educational read.
- This book should be on every high-school reading list!
- It is interesting to compare and
- …note the similarities of racism in 19th and 20th C
- …that continue to exist even in the 21st century.
- Interview with Ibram X. Kendi
- …..explaining the title of the book
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