Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning

If you want to learn the history of racism in American in an informative, insightful, and entertaining, way, I recommend this book. Jason Reynolds gives history with humour and personal flair.

As a brazilian, it was interesting to read about racism in the US and to compare with my own country. Racism is racism, anywhere, and we must fight against it. I learned a lot about this subject by reading this book because here in Brazil we don't study about the American Civil Rights in school. The author wrote in a way that makes easy to understand what was happening at the time when the historical facts took place. Now I want to study the life of MLK Jr., Malcom X, Rosa Parks and Angela Davis. #BlackLivesMatter

This is an excellent book to give to teens. Perfect to teach in class and set extended learning on; it is easy to read and follow. Excellently fluid facts and structure.

This is an incredible book explaining, in short, a history that should be required reading for everyone. It really shouldn’t just be a ‘teen’ book as I didn’t find it that way and very much enjoyed the style and pace of the book, I read it in full in one sitting. Also, I have found it quite humours reading through the negative reviews of people who’s children had to read it as it was ‘required reading’ at school. Clearly they should be the ones to be required to read this rather than judging!

I have studied history in graduate school and taught history in high school. I found this book to be wildly wrong about a number of people and events in American history. For example, Kendi and Reynolds' claims about the early New England settlers is just flat out wrong. It's true that there were slaveholders in New England in the early days of this country, but there were not many and the few who did hold slaves were far outside the mainstream of New England thought, in particular they were a long way from being affirmed and accepted by the New England Puritans, such as Jonathan Edwards. Other examples of bizarre thinking include the author's take on the color white as a symbol of virtue, purity, innocence and superiority is clearly true in some contexts, but clearly not true in other contexts. It can also be seen as a symbol of vapidity, emptiness, boredom, etc. In a similar way, any other color, including black is good in some cases ('in the black' for profit, the Jesus seminar uses black to represent the true words of Jesus, etc.) and bad or 'badass' in others (Johnny Cash as the man in black, blackguard, etc.). It is dangerously disingenuous and silly to argue that because some symbolic uses of white are good and some symbolic uses of black are bad that the whole culture is tipped in the direction of "white" people. My biggest concern: this is going to mislead a generation of students, and create even more racial strife in our culture. We need to learn to relate to each other as individuals not as pawns of culture.