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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: American history, and the racism entwined with it, is an enduring struggle between segregationists, assimilationists, and anti-racists.
Chapter 3: Europeans created racism from their colonial self-interest.
Chapter 4: America’s earliest outspoken assimilationist, Cotton Mather, proclaimed that Black people could acquire white souls.
Chapter 5: Thomas Jefferson epitomized his era’s hypocritical, selective antislavery posture then.
Chapter 6: Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison nevertheless fell prey to prevailing assimilationist myths.
Chapter 7: Once the institution of slavery ended, white Southerners promptly rebuilt that very same oppressive model again.
Chapter 8: Only the fallout of the Great Depression led W.E.B. Du Bois to abandon his assimilationist beliefs entirely.
Chapter 9: The gains of the civil rights movement unlocked openings for subtler, more insidious racist ideas.
Chapter 10: Angela Davis spearheaded a new wave of intersectional anti-racism.
Chapter 11: Racist ideas persist, but if we challenge the racists in power, their grip will not endure for long.
Description
Stamped from the Beginning (2016) offers a powerful examination of the modern history of racism in the United States, including where racist ideas originate and how they spread. In particular, the author looks closely at how the presidential campaigns and administrations of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton have helped propagate racist thought and had a detrimental impact on America’s black communities.
Who Should Listen
- Activists interested in civil rights and race relations
- Readers fascinated by American history
- Students of politics and public administration