Kevin’s Reviews > Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America > Status Update

So far, I love this book. The main argument—that policies and practices oppressing black people precede the racist ideas generated to justify those practices—is powerful, upending my “commonsense” assumption that racist hate and ignorance came first. Moreover, the author’s categories of segregationist, assimilationist, and anti-racist help to distinguish racist thought in history and in our contemporary world.