Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

by Ibram X. Kendi

Like the Germantown petitioners in the 1600s, and John Woolman in the 1700s, Tiedemann showed that people who held racist ideas were never simply products of their time. Although most scholars made the easy, popular, professionally rewarding choice of circulating racist ideas, some did not. Some made the hard, unpopular choice of advancing antiracist ideas.

“In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.