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(2016) I've been reading this one since January, but it refused to be read faster. I've had to take it in more manageable chunks, contemplate its points, and follow up on some of its references. Such an insightful, thorough book -- I had several lightbulb moments while reading. I'll seek out more by Kendi but I know I'll also return to this one

My #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin picks for January 2025 are very different books and I expect them to be great in very different ways. Looking forward to both.

Thanks for hosting another year, @TheAromaofBooks

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Excellent read if you want to know real history. Wish this was required reading in school when I was growing up. ☑️☑️

Dr. Kendi is a must buy author for me. While this could have read like a textbook, Dr. Kendi‘s writing style makes it so compelling and easier to absorb all the dates and facts being thrown the readers way. Obviously an emotionally challenging book, but an important one. History just keeps repeating.

I‘m reading this book *very* slowly to take in as much information as I can. I‘m being blown away by the vast amount of research and organization that went into writing this book. It would be a profound understatement to say I‘m disappointed in what I was taught about American history as a student. I‘m having a rude awakening into what this country is all about now because I can clearly see what this country has always been about.

Today‘s read on a dreary Monday while making easy pasta.

I was just looking! I gave in .

#12Booksof2021 #February Continuing with my list of books that I did not include on my top 21 of '21. One of my favorite reads of the year is one that I find difficult to recommend. This is due to the length, Kendi's scholarly prose & not least of all the difficult subject matter. Yet, this definitive history of racist ideas in America, as the subtitle of the book states, is not only one of the best books that I read this year. It is one of the👇

The entire contents of this book will be upsetting to white, Protestant men in America and anyone who believes they should have all the power. Kendi addresses not just racism, but sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, classism, and ethnocentrism. If you think you‘re somehow special because you‘re white, you‘re going to have a problem with this book. Plain and simple.
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It‘s amazing how often, as a history MA student, you deal with “white, male, Protestant” power. The history these morons want everyone to learn, is the history of white, male, Protestants, not factual history of any kind. As far as I‘m concerned, they can suck it.
#StampedFromTheBeginning #Stamped #IbramXKendi #audiobook #BannedBooksWeek

Does this really sound racist to anyone? This seems to be the proof that everyone railing against this book and it‘s YA (and now MG) version haven‘t even read the book they are trying to ban.
#StampedFromTheBeginning #Stamped #IbramXKendi #audiobook #BannedBooksWeek

The narrator, Christopher Dontrell Piper, doesn‘t know how to say the word Monticello, and apparently no one felt the need to tell him how to actually say it. This word features quite prominently in the second section of this book, and it‘s getting grating. I have literally never heard it referred to as MontiSello before. He Piper also doesn‘t know how to pronounce Immanuel Kant‘s last name. Again, where was the director?!

I don‘t see how he could be any clearer.
#StampedFromTheBeginning #Stamped #IbramXKendi #audiobook #BannedBooksWeek

Notice, he said NOTHING about white people being bad, just that they aren‘t as special as they think they are. Of course, anytime you tell someone they‘re not as special as they think they are, they get upset.
(enter Dana Carvey as the Church Lady) Isn‘t that special.
#StampedFromTheBeginning #Stamped #IbramXKendi #audiobook #BannedBooksWeek

I know this isn‘t technically the book that was banned, but it‘s the adult/super academic version of the book the banned book is based on. I own this audiobook, so I figured it was high time I gave it a listen.
#StampedFromTheBeginning #Stamped #IbramXKendi #audiobook #BannedBooksWeek

My last post has more info, but wanted to share this article separately so it doesn't get lost in all the links. I will be highlighting many of the books I've read, and those I want to read, that are currently banned from being taught at my elementary, middle, and high school alma mater.
There are a lot of current students, families, and alumni like myself working to reverse this ridiculous ban.
https://bookriot.com/central-york-book-ban-update/

Ibram Kendi covers an extensive chunk of the history of racism in the United States in this book. He ties things together well throughout, and really shines a light on how racism evolved to stay ahead of laws against racism over time. It was a bit dry, but I'm also not a big history reader. This chunky book might be the longest thing I read/listen to this year! 18 hours for the audiobook.

#LittenListen @aperfectmjk

A book I feel we all need to read. I found it extremely well written and very eye opening. Kendi addresses racism from various points of view. I wish books like this were used in history classes today.

I took my time with this audio so that I could let myself fully absorb all of the information. I highly recommend this book.

#midyearfaves Day 3 I must quote George Saunders to express my feelings about this book: “We often describe a wonderful book as 'mind-blowing' or 'life-changing' but I've found this rarely to actually be the case. I found both descriptions accurate for Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning...“ Kendi's work is exactly what the subtitle says: A History of Racial Ideas in America, yet it is more than a scholarly examination of our country's👇

I paused my afternoon of reading to deal with the 💩 storm over a really ridiculous, racist event at a local plantation museum that is part of our county parks system and located in my town.

I am on the town Parks & Rec advisory board and spent the afternoon contacting commissioners requesting they make a statement, then drafting my own response.

I really want to send the person who created this event a copy of the tagged book. ⬇️

Book #10 of the year: “Stamped From the Beginning” by Ibram X. Kendi

This one took me a long time to finish for so many reasons, and Elvis managed to get to the cover.

This is the history we aren‘t taught. This is history with the whitewash scrubbed off so the bloodstains and truth show through. This is the history we should be teaching.

Some great kindle deals today! I‘ve already read (and loved) Men We Reaped but I got the top two today.

Kendi's focus on the details of how trends in racist thought evolved over U.S. history is important given the absence of its coverage in our education system. He connects some patterns of racism to the present, even if the form changes. Examples of well-intentioned anti-slavery advocates like William Lloyd Garrison nevertheless spreading racist ideas are particularly critical to grasp. A meticulously researched history that everyone should read.

Stamped From the Beginning is, as indicated by the subtitle, a scholarly history of racist ideas in America. Kendi covers approximately 500 years in his survey. Along the way we are introduced to numerous historical figures (Cotton Mather, Lincoln, Du Bois, Baldwin, King, Angela Davis etc)Kendi's portrayals are objective & several of these figures are flawed individuals, some of who changed their thinking to more firmly antiracist stances later👇

1) Celebrating my brother's birthday.
2) Loyalty.
3) King's Firestarter, Jansson's True Deceiver & tagged book are the stand outs so far. And the year is just beginning!
#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

Thanks for the tag @TheSpineview! My late #MotivationalMonday post:
1. Picking up some craft supplies to do a few new projects
2. My favourite reading spots are the couch & in bed
3. Probably Anne Shirley because I have an overactive imagination & I‘m a walking disaster at times!
Just borrowed the tagged book from the library after a long wait & hope to start reading it tonight
@Cupcake12

This is a truly sweeping history of anti-Black racism (and, by extension, antiracism) in the US. There's a lot to dig into here. I'll be thinking for a while about Thomas Jefferson, and the parallels between current politics and the Reconstruction era, and the futility of “educational persuasion“ like the antiracist reading lists that this book features so prominently on.

This book is terrific. Through exhaustive research and citation, it reveals the reality of racist roots in the US that persist today. It‘s dense but not at all dry, so I found breaking it down to a smaller number of pages each day helped me work through and digest it properly. This should be required reading in high schools. And Congress.

Seems like a much needed project!

https://apple.news/A_npFxmZ4TbW7HZY_CdydKw

Such a powerful piece:

“This is not who we are must become, in the aftermath of the attack on the U.S. Capitol: This is precisely who we are. And we are ashamed. And we are aggrieved at what we‘ve done, at how we let this happen. But we will change. We will hold the perpetrators accountable. We will change policy and practices. We will radically root out this problem. It will be painful. But without pain there is no healing.”

This book was dense, and very detailed in the racist history of the United States. It starts with Slavery and goes till the election of president Barack Obama. It does a good job of providing a broad overview of the racists policies and ideas that continue to be alive and well today and that Antiracism activists need to understand in order to move forward.

#BFC2021 January

So my goals were to read 9 books, reduce my Sugar Intake by only drinking soda in the weekend and walking 4 miles a week.

I have read 75% of the tagged book.
I have walked 5.5 miles, so a little more then my goal.
I am struggling reducing my sugar intake. I am reducing my soda intake,.but I make up for with cookies and other snacks I eat though out the day.

 @wanderinglynn

#LetsTalkAudioBooks
#Audiobooks

Who is your favorite Audiobook Narrator?

Mine is Dion Graham, I lived his narration in Marlon James "Black Leppard, Red Wolf"

My first Audiobook of 2021!
This will count toward a Nonfiction book.about social justice.

#DiversityReads2021
#ReadingChallenges

#bookstagrams most popular books of 2020. Found on a new reading group on Facebook.

274pts #teamreadnosedreindeer #wintergames2020 @StayCurious

Just finished this immense and impressive tome. I learned a lot in this book, but the biggest thing I learned is that all of the negative stereotypes that circulate about Black people have their origins in the 1500s when people thought Africans were a different species from Europeans! That is obviously absurd, so why are we still perpetuating the rest of their absurd ideas about Black people?

This book was superb. An incredibly thorough history of the beginning of slavery, racist ideas about people with black and brown skin, white supremacy, and assimilation theory- from the 15th century to right now in america. Kendi retells the stories of so many people (ex. Abraham Lincoln) who have been revered as a hero in Black history, but who actually helped uphold and perpetuate racist ideologies. I recommend ten times over. Dense, but good.

Discussion Question Number Two.

Discussion Question Number one.

Thank you to @tpixie , @Kathrin , @Daisey and @Theresa for attending the discussion this afternoon. We missed you @Bookworm83 and @SoniaC !

Discussion questions will be posted starting tomorrow.

We hope you‘ll join us for our discussion of Stamped From The Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi today at 2pm ET. Use this link to join

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86464716369

See you soon!

#BookReport #DaiseysReadingWeek
📖 Everything Everything
🎧 Stamped from the Beginning - A truly informative and thought provoking book for #LitsyBookClub
📖 My Lady Jane

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🎧 & 📖 Henry V #ShakespeareReadalong
📖 The War of the Jewels #FellowshipOfTolkien
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📖 Developing ACV Learners

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📚 Continue current reads
📖 Start My Cousin Rachel
🎧 Decide on new audiobook

“Stamped From the Beginning” is a voluminous and dense magnum opus, that explores racism and racist ideas from its infancy to modern times. A highly recommended book for shedding light on the root causes of some of the race problems in America.

Book 145 of 2020.

#scarathlon2020 #teamslaughter 66 points

I‘ve been listening to this on my way to work each day this week. I had already listened to the young reader‘s version adapted by Jason Reynolds, but the original has so much more depth I‘m glad I decided to listen to it as well.

#LitsyBookClub not sure I‘m going to get done by this Sunday, but I will be a good way through.

#Nonfiction #audiobook

$2.99 kindle deal today. This was excellent.

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New month, new book. We hope that you will join us in our monthly read. Questions? Ask @Bookworm83 or @Graciouswarriorprincess .

Current read for the October @litsybookclub .