#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:

1. Stamped From the Beginning is a magnificent book!
2. Winner National Book Award 2016 for Non-fiction.
3. Part 1 on is 1600s…get through it because in
4. Part 2 with the introduction of Jefferson the book starts to sparkle!
5. Part 3 Abolitionists…again get through is because
6. Part 4 will take you from W.E. Du Bois up to Obama…riveting!

 

Conclusion:

1. If you’ve never read anything about racism in USA…
2. ..this probably would  be the best place to start!
3. The book is a #MustRead for
4. …anyone interested in understanding
5. contemporary issues in America.
6. Ibram X. Kendi is stunningly clear and straightforward.
7. The book reads much like a conversation….
8. from from pre-colonial times to the present
9. …from the slave trade boat to Obama.

 

1. This is an excellent book that all Americans should read.
2. …especially in the light of the
3. …approaching presidential election 2020.
4. It is a long book….requires some commitment.
5. I learned that the tactics may have changed but the goal
6. …has remained depressingly the same:
7. “Do not let them vote!”
8. “…If you can find a way to stop them,
9. ….stop them!” (black Americans)
10. This resulted in  2000 Bush winning Florida by 537 votes
11. …and being  elected president!
12. This book certainly has made me reflect
13. …on and rethink my own views about race.
14. I wonder what will happen in elections 2020 to prevent
15. …black Americans voicing their choice.

 

Last thoughts:

1. This is a very informative and educational  read.
2. This book should be on every high-school reading list!
3. It is interesting to compare and
4. …note the similarities of racism in 19th and 20th C
5. …that continue to exist  even in the 21st century.

 

• Interview with Ibram X. Kendi
  
• …..explaining the title of the book