EL MEJOR LIBRO PARA ENTENDER CÓMO SE INSTITUCIONALIZA EL RACISMO.
GANADOR DEL NATIONAL BOOK AWARD DE NO FICCIÓN EN 2016
Tras la elección de Barack Obama, muchos declararon el inicio de una era
postracial. Sin embargo, el pensamiento racista, más sofisticado e
insidioso que nunca, sigue profundamente arraigado en la sociedad
estadounidense. Tal y como argumenta Ibram X. Kendi-la voz más
influyente de la lucha antirracista y uno de los referentes actuales del
movimiento #BlackLivesMatter-, aunque las ideas racistas se
desarrollan, difunden y consagran muy fácilmente, también se las puede
desacreditar. Y esto es lo que se propone con Marcados al nacer, una
obra maestra galardonada con el National Book Award que derriba la idea,
muy asentada, de que el racismo es consecuencia directa de la ignorancia
o el odio.
En esta investigación histórica profundamente documentada, Kendi nos
demuestra cómo en Estados Unidos las mentes más brillantes de diferentes
épocas se han esforzado en crear y perpetuar instituciones racistas y un
sistema basado en políticas discriminatorias, para luego generar ideas y
actitudes racistas que justifiquen ex post facto la esclavitud y la
segregación. Al hablar sin tapujos del racismo y de su turbia historia,
este libro nos dota de las herramientas necesarias para desenmascararlo,
y se convierte en una lectura indispensable en los tiempos que corren.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were
created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.
Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But
racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more
sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning
historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering
history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit.
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. 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. Du Bois, and legendary activist Angela Davis.
As Kendi shows, racist ideas did not arise from ignorance or hatred.
They were created to justify and rationalize deeply entrenched
discriminatory policies and the nation's racial inequities.
In shedding light on this history, Stamped from the Beginning offers us
the tools we need to expose racist thinking. In the process, he gives us
reason to hope.
Praise for Stamped from the Beginning:
We often describe a wonderful book as 'mind-blowing' or 'life-changing'
but I've found this rarely to actually be the case. I found both
descriptions accurate for Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning...
I will never look at racial discrimination again after reading this
marvellous, ambitious, and clear-sighted book. - George Saunders,
Financial Times, Best Books of 2017
Ambitious, well-researched and worth the time of anyone who wants to
understand racism. - Seattle Times
A deep (and often disturbing) chronicling of how anti-black thinking has
entrenched itself in the fabric of American society. - The Atlantic
- Winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction
- A New York Times Bestseller
- A Washington Post Bestseller
- Finalist for the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for
Nonfiction
- Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Boston Globe, -
Washington Post, Chicago
Review of Books, The Root, Buzzfeed, Bustle, and Entropy
