Stamped from the Beginning Lesson Plan

Stamped from the Beginning claims to be an “entire” and “definitive” history of racist ideas in the United States. Book Browse refers to the nonfiction book as “deeply researched and fast-moving.” In the Prologue, Kendi introduces five “tour guides” that guide the reader through different eras in U.S. history: Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. DuBois and Angela Davis. With these guides, the historical narrative begins with the “discovery” of the New World and ends with the Obama Era. Kendi also introduces his framework for racist ideas which splits them into two groups: segregationist and assimilationist. Kendi argues that if the United States is ever going...