Brilliant, thorough, paradigm-shifting. Mind-boggling in scope, Stamped from the Beginning truly is a nuanced and complete history of anti-black racism in the United States. It effectively teaches the history of racism while also along the way teaching its readers to un/relearn their fundamental understanding of what racism is. Cannot recommend highly enough.

(Side note: Despite the slightly misleading subtitle, this work focuses almost exclusively on *anti-black* racism, which is more than enough content for this already dense, rich, long book. If you’re looking for the history other types of racism in the US (anti-Asian, anti-Indigenous, etc.) you will have to supplement, but it’s 100% worth starting here.)