He uses the life stories of five major American intellectuals to drive this history: Puritan minister Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B.
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. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America - it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. Some Americans insist that we’re living in a post-racial society. The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.
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