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Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram X. Kendi, Sonja Cherry-Paul, Jason Reynolds
cornmaven's review against another edition
5.0
Juvenile edition of the adult book, which I need to read. I picked this up because I had read of rumblings in the Texas school censorship drama going on right now.
It's excellent. An in your face, blunt, factually accurate journey through American history to show how racism was baked into the Constitution, and continued to be codified by laws decade after decade. It teaches kids the meaning of three words: segregationist, assimilationist, and anti-racist. It's bold enough to show black leaders also fitting some of those words at times, and the conflicts occurring among them, such as King and Malcolm X. It's honest enough to illuminate how Presidents like Jefferson and Lincoln said one thing, did another at points.
There's a glossary in the back, an extensive bibliography split into kid books, older readers, illustrated, and adult books. Because the point of the book is to teach and then encourage kids to explore further.
May we have more historians come out of this effort, if they can endure and rise above the conservative efforts to ban these types of books.
It's excellent. An in your face, blunt, factually accurate journey through American history to show how racism was baked into the Constitution, and continued to be codified by laws decade after decade. It teaches kids the meaning of three words: segregationist, assimilationist, and anti-racist. It's bold enough to show black leaders also fitting some of those words at times, and the conflicts occurring among them, such as King and Malcolm X. It's honest enough to illuminate how Presidents like Jefferson and Lincoln said one thing, did another at points.
There's a glossary in the back, an extensive bibliography split into kid books, older readers, illustrated, and adult books. Because the point of the book is to teach and then encourage kids to explore further.
May we have more historians come out of this effort, if they can endure and rise above the conservative efforts to ban these types of books.
superioromega79's review against another edition
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
sad
fast-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Racism, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, and War
brittaddictedtobooks's review against another edition
5.0
This is a great book for the elementary crowd. It gives a good starting point for a lot of discussions that we will continue to have over time. We’ll pick up the YA or adult version in a few years.
kb_hg's review
5.0
Both my son and I rate this book 5 stars and hit a lot of point I would have missed if just had a conversation around this subject matter
wintermote's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
4.75
Extremely well-written and convicting. Such a challenge for us as white people.