Stamped from the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America [Paperback]

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • 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.

NOMINATED FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD

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.“A welcome, educational addition to social justice collections.”—School Library Journal

“An impressive and disturbing weaving of the United States’ horrifically racist roots, the institutional and interpersonal racism still pervasive in American society today, and the ways in which antiracist movements can inspire hope and change.”—Screen Rant
 
“Translating a dense historical analysis into a graphic narrative is a strange challenge, but it’s one that Gill rises to with aplomb . . . People are complicated, as Stamped illustrates, and while no one individual necessarily ‘got it right,&rsql³«