The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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Average rating4.6
A wealth of information that sent us down plenty of rabbit holes filling in gaps of historical knowledge. Some sentences left me rereading them 4-5 times to fully understand some pieces..perhaps room for improving clarity on those, but sometimes politics is just plain confusing like that. Overall I'm extremely glad I've read this book to fix my whitewashed, oversimplified, gappy education. It was fascinating learning the origins of racist ideas and he really challenges the idea of putting people in boxes, with showing the evolution of certain characters and their ways of thinking changing, sometimes good, sometimes bad.