PositiveThe Guardian (UK)I can’t say whether Ibram X Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning will offend most white people (though I’m willing to bet it will offend some), but he damn sure names white supremacy for what it is ... [Kendi’s] research is exhaustive and his conclusions will surprise many ... Readers might find that Kendi spends a little too much time with Mather ... This book’s ultimately hopeful analysis doesn’t seem to hold sway at this moment, as the president, and much of the population, defends memorials that historians agree were put in place as symbols of white supremacy. But the struggle over these symbols might finally represent a slow recognition that something has changed, and perhaps it’s now the white supremacists who need to be \'assimilated\' into an anti-racist future that is still beyond the nation’s grasp.
