Americans like to insist that they are living in a post-racial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, racist ideas in America have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit.

In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti–Black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. Stamped from the Beginning uses the lives of five major American intellectuals to offer a window into the contentious debates between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and anti-racists. 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 pro-slavery and pro–civil rights thinkers have challenged or helped cement racist ideas in America.

As Kendi provocatively illustrates, racist thinking did not arise from ignorance or hatred. Racist ideas were created and popularized in an effort to defend deeply entrenched discriminatory policies and to rationalize the nation’s racial inequities in everything from wealth to health. While racist ideas are easily produced and easily consumed, they can also be discredited. In shedding much–needed light on the murky history of racist ideas, Stamped from the Beginning offers tools to expose them—and in the process, reason to hope.

【作者簡介】

伊布拉姆·X.肯迪（Ibram X. Kendi），美國大學曆史和國際關係學教授、反種族主義研究和政策研究中心創始主任。2012年，他寫齣瞭獲奬作品《黑人校園行動：黑人學生與高等教育的種族重構，1965~1976》（The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education，1965-1972）。他經常發錶演講與評論，其文章發錶在《紐約時報》《沙龍》《赫芬頓郵報》《高等教育紀事報》《根》等刊物上。肯迪現居住於華盛頓特區。

【譯者簡介】

硃葉娜，英文譯者，中國社會科學院研究生院人類學碩士，曾參與國際人類學民族學第16屆世界大會部分論文翻譯工作。

高鑫，中央民族大學理學與曆史學雙學士學位、法學碩士學位，對外經貿大學經濟學碩士學位。曾在《廣西民族大學學報》等發錶過文章。