Jason Reynolds re-mixed Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped From The Beginning into this accessible and well-written history of racist and anti-racist thought aimed at teen readers. Beginning with European slave trading in the 1400s and continuing to the present-day Black Lives Matter movement, this book helped clarify for me the segregationist, assimilationist, and anti-racist mindsets and how they've developed in America. The book focus on several major intellectuals: Puritan minister Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, scholar W.E.B. Du Bois and anti-prison activist/writer/teacher Angela Davis. The Angela Davis sections contained the most new material for me, and sharpened my interest in reading some of her work. I listened to it as an audio book and greatly enjoyed Reynold's beautiful delivery throughout.