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Stamped from the Beginning is Ibram X. Kendi’s award-winning book about the history of anti-Black racist ideas in the U.S. Stamped is an adaptation of Stamped from the Beginning.
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I don't think I'm a great writer like Jason, but I do think I'm a courageous writer. I wrote Stamped from the Beginning with my cell phone on, with my television on, with my anger on, with my joy on—always thinking on and on. I watched the televised and untelevised life of the shooting star of #Black Lives Matter during America's stormiest nights. I watched the televised and untelevised killings of unarmed Black human beings at the hands of cops and wannabe cops. I somehow managed to write Stamped from the Beginning between the heartbreaking deaths of seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin and seventeen-year-old Darnesha Harris and twelve-year-old Tamir Rice and sixteen-year-old Kimani Gray and eighteen-year-old Michael Brown, heartbreaks that are a product of America's history of racist ideas as much as a history of racist ideas is a product of these heartbreaks.
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...way to understand the racism that exists today. This book is Jason Reynolds’s remix of Stamped from the Beginning , Kendi’s book about the history of racist ideas. An idea is racist if it...
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...a brilliant writer, and he has made this book interesting and relatable. When Kendi wrote Stamped from the Beginning , the #BlackLivesMatter movement was just starting. It broke Kendi’s heart to watch “cops and...
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