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.”
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Stamped from the Beginning
Ibram X. Kendi
The 600-page National Book Award-winning original that Reynolds remixed — the full scholarly argument with complete historical documentation
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
Direct address, moral urgency, refusal of false comfort — Baldwin is the ancestor Reynolds is updating for a new generation
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Also written as a direct address to a younger person, also refuses easy resolution — more elegiac than Reynolds, equally unsparing
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
Kendi's follow-up to Stamped from the Beginning — memoir combined with policy analysis, showing antiracism as a practice rather than an identity
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
The essential companion on mass incarceration — where Reynolds summarizes the war on drugs in a chapter, Alexander documents it exhaustively
Long Way Down
Jason Reynolds
Reynolds's own YA novel — a verse novel about gun violence in a Black community that carries many of the same questions about structural vs. individual explanations for harm