Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi (2020)
“A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America — told to you straight, starting in 1415, ending right now.”
EraContemporary
Pages294
Difficulty★☆☆☆☆ Accessible
AP Appearances0
Character Analysis
The man who wrote the first justification for enslaving Africans, commissioned by Prince Henry the Navigator. Not a monster in Reynolds's telling — a court chronicler doing his job, which was to make profitable atrocity sound like mercy. His template — we harm them for their benefit — has been used in almost identical form for five centuries.