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Stamped from the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped from the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America | Joel Christian Gill, Ibram X Kendi
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A striking graphic novel edition of the National Book Award-winning history of how racist ideas have shaped American life--from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist. Racism has persisted throughout history--but so have antiracist efforts to dismantle it. Through deep research and a gripping narrative that illuminates the lives of five key American figures, preeminent historian Ibram X. Kendi reveals how understanding and improving the world cannot happen without identifying and facing the racist forces that shape it. In collaboration with award-winning historian and comic artist Joel Christian Gill, this stunningly illustrated graphic-novel adaptation of Dr. Kendi's groundbreaking Stamped from the Beginning explores, with vivid clarity and dimensionality, the living history of America, and how we can learn from the past to work toward a more equitable, antiracist future.
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Kenyazero
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I opened the door to find some unexpected book mail! I often enter the book drawings on Goodreads and Storygraph for authors I follow, but I thought I‘d be notified if I won one. I guess not 😆 Very excited to read this dense graphic novel and to have it in my collection.

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TieDyeDude
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Bailedbailed

I love Joel Christian Gill's work, but this just didn't do it for me. It felt like an adaptation from someone way too familiar with the source material; there wasn't a good flow, and it felt like things were glossed over. I would be interested in reading the original text, but I had a hard time with this version.

dabbe #hailthebail! 🤩🤩🤩 9mo
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TieDyeDude
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The tagged book is one of my #bookspin drawings, but our statewide interlibrary loan system blocks new books from circulation. It will have been out a year in May, so fingers crossed I'll see it at some point.
#bookspinbingo @thearomaofbooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fantastic!! 10mo
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Twocougs
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Pickpick

Fantastic read. Thought I k ew a lot but still learned new things!

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LibrarianRyan
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Pickpick

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐5 ⭐
Stamp from the beginning, has been a very important book in our modern society. So important that they made both a young readers addition, and a kid‘s edition. Now they have come out with a graphic novel edition to help all readers, understand how racism began at the same time our country did. How from the very beginning of colonialization, the thinking of one race of people is better than other, has been stamped into

LibrarianRyan everything that our country has grown up around. This book does this through looking at five key historical figures, and what they have done to burden or to help society as a whole in this endeavor to be anti-racist. The way this book was turned into a graphic novel is phenomenal. How the artist and the author bring forth the idea of antiracist versus segregationist and that both are a form of racism, had this white reader thinking “maybe I am 1y
LibrarianRyan doing things wrong”.

This book starts out with a fantastic comic of a white woman going into a black school to teach all the kids, and now they‘ve all passed. And how it‘s a good thing. A.k.a. the Dangerous Minds situation also known as white saviorism. It helps people realize that this is a form of assimilation. That by saying things like stop, pull your pants, talk right, etc. is assimilation.
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LibrarianRyan That by saying things like stop, pull your pants, talk right, etc. is assimilation. What is talking right? Too many it‘s talking “white”. So, lots of fantastic ideas and history in this book that is not taught other places. Whether read in graphic novel, or any of the three other versions, this book should be read, and should be considered part of a curriculum on the history of our country. 1y
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