Six years ago I became enamored by the power of comics. To clarify the complexity of history. Keeping us thinking and laughing and learning. Like our graphic history of racist ideas, Stamped from the Beginning, which I'm proud to announce is out today. 1/
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- Six years ago I became enamored by the power of comics. To clarify the complexity of history. Keeping us thinking and laughing and learning. Like our graphic history of racist ideas, Stamped from the Beginning, which I'm proud to announce is out today. 1/ penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665573/s…
There is something special about comics. This artistic form takes people places, allows people to overcome their fear and go on a journey of history that they know or suspect they must see. And this graphic novel with Joel Christian Gill is a must-see. 2/ penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665573/s…Because so much of how we see this society is shaped by anti-Black racist ideas. 3/ penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665573/s…People of all races look out at their society of persisting racial inequity—of constant injustice against Black people—and don’t see a problem because they have been taught to see Black people as the problem. 4/ penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665573/s…Black people have been stamped as biologically, culturally, and/or behaviorally inferior from the beginning of these colonies, from the beginning of the United States. 5/ penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665573/s…People have been taught racist ideas that Black people, as a group, are lazy, violent, hypersexual, irresponsible, lurid, unintelligent, servile, childlike, and animalistic. And each racist idea has an origin story. 6/ penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665573/s…And each origin story is the production of racist ideas to distract people—especially Black people—from the racist policy and power that are ensnaring and excluding and endangering Black people. So, we won’t resist. 7/ penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665573/s…Antiracist Americans have been resisting these ideas from the beginning, and imagining a multiracial nation whereby “equality” is no longer a dead letter on founding documents ... 8/ penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665573/s…... but a living creed where all racial groups are seen, finally, as equals, and treated equitably. 9/ penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665573/s…But we will never be able to create that living creed if we can’t identify racist ideas, if we can’t unlearn them, if we can’t learn antiracist ideas of racial equality ... 10/ penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665573/s…... if we refuse to abolish the racist policies that necessitate racist ideas to justify them. 11/ penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665573/s…That is why this graphic history of racist ideas is so important. That is why I am excited that this new book comes out today. In this powerful new form, six years in the making. Joel, we did it. #StampedGraphic 12/12 penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665573/s…
