What does Stamped From the Beginning add to our understanding of American intellectual history? Has it reframed your conception of intellectual history in any way?

1. Kendi very clearly centers his work in the present political moment: #BlackLivesMatter and
the post-Obama era. How does this affect his argument? What value does this add to the book?
2. What does Stamped From the Beginning add to our understanding of American intellectual
history? Has it reframed your conception of intellectual history in any way?
3. How do gender and sexual orientation contribute to Kendi’s discussion of race?
4. Kendi reaches across centuries to show the scientific, or pseudo-scientific, roots of the idea
of race. How does science relate to racist ideas? How do biologists and medical scientists
connect to the production of racist policies and ideas?
5. How does art enhance, complicate, and/or promote the development of racist or antiracist
thought in America?

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