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

At 34, he was the youngest person ever to win the National Book Award for Nonfiction. That was in 2016 for his book Stamped from the Beginning. It is, as the subtitle says, a definitive history of racist ideas in America.

You know, I read your book a long time ago

Which one? the the stamp, true story

Oh, good. And all of that. I love that book.

Oh, thank you.

And he's the person who Ibram Kendi asked to write the YA version of Stamped.

So in the year 2020, before 2020 became 2020, you published this book with Ibram X. X Kendi called Stamped Racism, Anti-Racism and You. It is a, you call it a remix of his book, Stamped from the Beginning.

And on I mean, you know, we could use so many examples, but I look back and I don't know why we didn't like it's just like, why were we sitting there? Why were teachers teaching it? Why were we just sitting there taking it in?

And so what I wanted to do was figure out how to eliminate all excuse to backpedal out of the pages. I needed to make sure that no one closed the book.

So in the year 2020, before 2020 became 2020, you published this book with Ibram X. Kendi called Stamped Racism, Anti-Racism and You. You call it a remix of his book Stamped from the Beginning.

And the reason why is because he and I both wanted to figure out how we could tap into the imagination of young people.

And I think we wanted to make something, the first of its kind, something that was literally made thinking about a 12 year old or 14 year old or 16 year old, what they would want to read and how to engage them so that they actually can store new language, new lexicon, new vocabulary, new histories in their personal libraries.