Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning

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Ibram X Kendi wrote a book called Stamped from the Beginning about the history of racism in America. Jason Reynolds (an amazing author who I highly recommend), took that book and rewrote it to make it easier for younger readers. And like with all Jason Reynolds books, I learned a lot.This is not a history book. It is a present book. Based on history. Spanning from colonization to today, he spells out how racism has evolved in this country. And he writes it like he’s standing here having a conversation with you. He focuses on three themes. Segregation, Assimilation, and Antiracism. Segregation – keeping white people and people of color separate. Keeping white people in power and black people down b/c they are less than. Assimilation – the idea that if black people could act more white (aka right), then everything would be fine. Antiracism – Knowing that human beings are human beings and that it is more than acceptable to be who you are, no matter the color of your skin. Or, as Jason explains it “ Segregationists are haters. Like, REAL haters. People who hate you for not being like them. Assimilationists are people who like you, but only with quotation marks. Like… “like” you. Meaning, they “like” you because you’re like them. And then there are antiracists. They LOVE you because you’re like you.”This book goes through the history of racism from 1415 through today. The different policies and plans to keep racism in the forefront and to keep white people in power. And the people who fought and are still fighting against it. It lays out piece by piece where certain theories of racism have come from and how they have been combatted and how we can continue the work. Everyone should read this book.

Originally, I ordered this book for a book drive at my job.But when it arrived and I read the front/back cover and the inside jacket comments; I knew I could not give this book away!I am keeping it for myself and my daughter wants to read it after me.I will have to find another book for the book drive!!

I learned more from this than I ever did in high school, where we never talked about anything beyond the Civil War and Reconstruction. I've had to educate myself to fill in the rest, and it's a good thing I did because there was so much left out of history text books, even regarding the time periods that we actually studied. I hope that teens today have the opportunity to read this to see what they've been missing in class.This book begins in 1415 Europe with the World's First Racist and ends with the Obama administration here in America. A lot of people don't want to hear that racism is the root cause of inequality of all kinds in this country, but it's true. Keeping Black people down to maintain the hierarchy is the cause of everyone's problems because keeping Black people down also keeps everyone else down, too. Unless you're a rich, straight, cis, white, Christian male. The privileged set will say and do anything to keep themselves at the top of the hierarchy, holding on tightly to the power that makes their lives easier and everyone else's miserable. It's all about money. And racism gets them more money as well as power.This book gives many examples, with source notes, about how this is true throughout the history of America and even before that. The status quo is not good enough. It never was. I really hope we can learn from history and break the cycle. It's long overdue.