Stamped From the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America

Name: Stamped From the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America
Author: Joel Christian Gill

Joel Christian Gill · 2025

Historical fiction

Banned in 1 country

About this book

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A striking graphic novel edition of the National Book Award-winning history of how racist ideas have shaped American life—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist. NOMINATED FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD Racism has persisted throughout history—but so have antiracist efforts to dismantle it. Through deep research and a gripping narrative that illuminates the lives of five key American figures, preeminent historian Ibram X. Kendi reveals how understanding and improving the world cannot happen without identifying and facing the racist forces that shape it. In collaboration with award-winning historian and comic artist Joel Christian Gill, this stunningly illustrated graphic-novel adaptation of Dr. Kendi’s groundbreaking Stamped from the Beginning explores, with vivid clarity and dimensionality, the living history of America, and how we can learn from the past to work toward a more equitable, antiracist future.

Censorship history

Stamped From the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America was banned or restricted in United States in 2025 for its political content and challenge to authority, as well as race / colonialism. This case illustrates how governments across political systems have used censorship to shield authority from literary criticism.