Stamped- Racism, Antiracism, and You- A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning by Jason Reynolds
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Web ID: 16397731A Must-Read
As I have embarked on my own ABAR studies and work, I have cultivated a lengthy list of recommended books. Certain books appear time and again on numerous list recommendations. Of course, Ibram X. Kendi is one of the top authors. I fully admit that when I was ready to start my next read, I glanced at my curated wishlist on Amazon and grabbed this one because it was one of the least expensive. And I am glad I was led to that decision. This is a book that I think everyone should read. Author Jason Reynolds is known for writing books more geared toward the younger generation. I think it was brilliant for him to take Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning and break it down. After all, the original is about 500 pages long. Readers are more likely to want to read a more abbreviated version. This book hits on all of the high points of the full text and delivers it in a very conversational format. I think that aspect is key. We are talking about the need to have conversations. And reading this made me feel like I was sitting drinking a coffee or a beer with Jason while he imparted some serious knowledge on me. Many of these names were familiar to me. But I never before realized how much I didn’t know about their full stories. I’ve been learning some, thanks to some excellent Great Courses lectures. But this really opened my eyes to even more And while this book is written with the slightly younger set in mind, I think it is an important one for adults to read as well. It lays the foundation for learning more history than we got at school. Ideally, you will want to then move on to the full text, which I already had on order before I was finished with this one. I also hope it will inspire some inner reflection in readers. Will you challenge what you have learned and seek out more of the story? Will you better understand the current racial climate and the experiences that your Black friends and acquaintances have had in their past and continue to face? And will you finally recognize yourself as being in one of the three groups – segregationist, assimilationist, or antiracist? Will you have better conversations? I know there will be some who have a problem with this book. They are the ones who have the most work to do and would benefit greatly from the education inside it. I hope more people are willing to open their minds to this conversation and are willing to use this book to help them join in. I think this is belongs on required reading lists. I am glad I included it in my reading and will definitely read it again.
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PHENOMENAL
Don’t be afraid to learn or accept the truth!!! Must purchase must read !!!!
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Wow. Racism, not in the way the author intended
Since it was inserted in my HS child's US history class I felt compelled to read it. First, as the book states demonstratively on the first page, it is NOT a history book. NOT a history book. While it has many historical references, it is an OPINION book. Even the references to history are painted with a slanted opinion brush. It seems to be painted as an anti-racist book but instead is decidedly racist. Just research the author and his past to see his agenda. The book is inflammatory to race relations with no, repeat no, solutions suggested. Just complaints. Stoke the raging fire of race relations, make it worse, and offer no solutions... just more division. What is the agenda of this type of book? A personal one..... not one for the good of all of us.
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History you want to read!
The author throughout mentions that this book is not really a history book, and he is right, it's not, it's better than a typical history book. It goes through history in a very interesting POV that you want everyone to read it! It's well written, entertaining, and addresses difficult issues that still happen today.
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Essential
I finally finished this, and the reason it took me so long was not because it wasn't fabulous, but because I wanted to read it when I could really devote some time to it, pay attention, and absorb it. In fact, I ended up starting over and reading the whole thing through in just a few sittings. Needless to say, this is an incredibly valuable book. I think every kid in the country ought to read it, and every adult should read either this, or the original, Stamped From the Beginning. Very enlightening.
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Highly disappointed
I thought this book was going to provide thoughtful information about racism in America. Instead it seemed to be filled with inaccuracies, assumptions, and a worldview that blames whiteness for all of America's racial problems. The authors have a very skewed and narcissistic view of human nature. On the first page of the introduction they write, "Racist and antiracist ideas have lived in human minds for nearly six hundred years. Born in western Europe in the mid-1400s, racist ideas traveled to colonial America and have lived in the United States from its beginning." Clearly, the authors have not studied any history prior to the mid-1400s, as racist ideas and actions have existed in the minds of humans from the earliest points of civilization. Their statement blames Western Europeans for creating this thing that all of humanity must battle, called Racism. The book progresses in this same fashion for 255 pages. The authors find fault with every historical figure possible from Fredrick Douglass, W.E.B Du bois, Abraham Lincoln, Harper Lee, and M.L.King. The only people they seem to truly admire are Angela Davis and Malcolm X. I will be using the book with my children not to discuss racial problems in America, as intended, but rather to explore poor writing styles and logical fallacies.
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Absolutely in LOVE with this book!
I just bought Stamped: racism, antiracism, and you today and I couldn't put it down. I learned about how racism was first started, how Zurara thought the "Africans needed slavery in order to be fed and taught Jesus, and that it was all ordained by God, ..." and how there were theories about why Africans were the way they were. The first theory was that white people thought that Africans were born the way they were or that it was where they lived that made them inferior. The second theory was that Africans were cursed. How George Best proved this theory was the bible. Best interpretation of the book of Genesis was that Noah order his sons not to have "love making" with their wives on the ark and tells them that the first child born after the flood would inherit the earth. After he tells his sons that, Ham has love making on the ark and "God wills that Ham's descendants will be dark and disgusting, and the whole world will look at them as symbols of trouble..." So far I am in LOVE with this book even though I am not done reading it.
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