Getting Racist Ideas Backwards
Underlying much of the media’s fumbled white supremacist coverage is an enduring assumption about where racist ideas comes from: the poor, the uneducated, and the hateful. Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is the founding director of the Anti-Racist Research and Policy Center at American University and author of “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.” He tells The Guardian US's Lois Beckett that this prevailing narrative is centuries old and completely backwards.
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A History of Racist Idea: How have racist ideas come to exist in America, and what does this look like in the Trump administration?
by Jamelle Bouie
Mar 13, 2017 – Jamelle Bouie talks to professor Ibram Kendi about the racial components of Trump’s policies and the history of these racist ideas.
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The History of Race and Racism in America
May 25, 2017 – In The New York Times Book Review, Ibram X. Kendi, the National Book Award-winning author of “Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America,” selects a list of the most influential books on race and the black experience in the United States for each decade of the nation’s existence.
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Mayor's Book Club
Feb 8, 2017 – A discussion between Mayor Lauren Poe and Ibram X. Kendi, author of "Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America."
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Author Ibram Kendi On The Evolution Of Racism
by Celeste Headlee & Sean Powers
Dec 12, 2016 – From its earliest days as a nation, the United States has struggled with a problem that we can’t seem to solve - racism. Ibram Kendi chronicles the evolution of racism in his book “Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.” We talked with him before his lecture Monday at 8pm at the Atlanta History Center.
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Ibram X. Kendi on racism in America
by Ben Chin, Beacon Podcast
Dec 5, 2016 - On this episode of the Beacon Podcast, Ben Chin interviews Professor Ibram X. Kendi about his new book, Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.
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The History of Racist Ideas in the United States with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
Oct 26, 2016 – From Puritan minister Cotton Mather to Thomas Jefferson, from fiery abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison to brilliant scholar W.E.B. Du Bois to legendary anti-prison activist Angela Davis, Kendi shows how and why some of our leading proslavery and pro-civil rights thinkers have challenged or helped cement racist ideas in America.
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The Definitive History Of Racist Ideas In America
By Joe Donahue
Sep 16, 2016 – Young black men are 21 times more likely to be killed by police than their white counterparts. The unemployment rate for African Americans has been double that of whites for more than half a century. Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, if we have any hope of grappling with this stark reality, we must first understand how racist ideas were developed, disseminated, and enshrined in American society.
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