"Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America"
by Ibram X. Kendi
All are welcome.
This is a two part event. Part 1, Wednesday, January 13th, Part 2, Wednesday, January 27th.
This is a virtual event that begins at 6:45pm Eastern Time.
We will use Zoom breakout rooms during the meeting for small group discussion.
Please read the entire book.
Please purchase and read/listen to "Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America" by Ibram X. Kendi before our virtual meeting on Wednesday, January 13th, 7-9pm Eastern Time.
Join the pre-event discussion/forum at: https://www.actionhoco.com/forum/book-7-january-2021
Register for Part 1, Wednesday, January 13th at: www.eventbrite.com/e/stamped-from-the-beginning-book-discussion-part-1-tickets-123958630601
Register for Part 2, Wednesday, January 27th at: www.eventbrite.com/e/stamped-from-the-beginning-book-discussion-part-2-tickets-123959908423
“The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.
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.”
Source: Amazon.com
Register for Part 1 at: www.eventbrite.com/e/stamped-from-the-beginning-book-discussion-part-1-tickets-123958630601
Register for Part 2 at: www.eventbrite.com/e/stamped-from-the-beginning-book-discussion-part-2-tickets-123959908423
Please purchase and read/listen to "Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America" by Ibram X. Kendi before our virtual meeting on Wednesday, January 13th, 7-9pm Eastern Time.