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Liepman Literary Agency
Marc Koralnik |
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STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING
Graphic Novel
Joel Christian Gill's brilliant graphic novel adaptation of Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Nation Books, 2016).
To quote from the NBA judges' citation about the importance of this book:
Stamped from the Beginning turns our ideas of the term racism' upside-down. Ibram X. Kendi writes as a thoughtful cultural historian, aware that he is challenging deeply held, often progressive assumptions. Using a masterful voyage through the history of U.S. political rhetoric, beginning with Cotton Mather and ending with hip-hop, he argues that even the most fervent anti-racists have been infected with that resilient virus. With his learning, he dares us to find a cure.
But while the original version of Stamped should fairly be considered required reading for every American citizen, it is also a 500-page dense intellectual history that is likely to attract a more serious readership. The graphic novel aims to draw in the casual and curious reader; it will synthesize all the most salient ideas in the original book in 250 black-and-white pages of pointed words and compelling pictures, which both bring to life the characters around whom the book is built, but also drill down to Stamped's most important and eye-opening revelations of a history we should all know better.
It will be for anyone curious about the racist ideas that undergird America's founding and will appeal to a wide swath of graphic novel and history readers, anyone interested in race and antiracist studies, and YA and college students. Like the bestselling graphic novel interpretation of Howard Zinn's work, The United States of American Empire (Metropolitan), this book will be enthusiastically championed by librarians and high school and college teachers--who embrace graphic novels because they connect so immediately with students and are often the most direct and effective way of communicating complex ideas. In fact, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund released a first-of-its-kind survey last fall to finally offer concrete evidence of the rate at which teachers and students are embracing comics as valuable tools in the classroom.
Joel Christian Gill has spent his career telling the untold stories of African-American heroes in comics in the acclaimed series' Strange Fruit and Tales of the Talented Tenth. He is currently Associate Professor of Illustration at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. An educator, historian, cartoonist, advocate, and activist, already recognized and beloved by teachers, librarians and students, he could not be a more ideal partner in realizing this ambitious project. His graphic memoir Fights was released last week with incredible blurbs and early praise and is also sure to raise his profile.
Since the publication of Stamped, Ibram X. Kendi has emerged as one of the leading voices, if not the leading voice, on race in America. He is booked solid right now, promoting his New York Times bestselling memoir, How To Be An Antiracist--which is literally everywhere. He is also the Founding Director of The Antiracist Research & Policy Center at American University in Washington, DC. where he launched the first-ever Antiracist Bookfair to take place annually in April. He is an ideas columnist at The Atlantic and a frequent commentator on CBS This Morning.
Stamped from the Beginning turns our ideas of the term racism' upside-down. Ibram X. Kendi writes as a thoughtful cultural historian, aware that he is challenging deeply held, often progressive assumptions. Using a masterful voyage through the history of U.S. political rhetoric, beginning with Cotton Mather and ending with hip-hop, he argues that even the most fervent anti-racists have been infected with that resilient virus. With his learning, he dares us to find a cure.
But while the original version of Stamped should fairly be considered required reading for every American citizen, it is also a 500-page dense intellectual history that is likely to attract a more serious readership. The graphic novel aims to draw in the casual and curious reader; it will synthesize all the most salient ideas in the original book in 250 black-and-white pages of pointed words and compelling pictures, which both bring to life the characters around whom the book is built, but also drill down to Stamped's most important and eye-opening revelations of a history we should all know better.
It will be for anyone curious about the racist ideas that undergird America's founding and will appeal to a wide swath of graphic novel and history readers, anyone interested in race and antiracist studies, and YA and college students. Like the bestselling graphic novel interpretation of Howard Zinn's work, The United States of American Empire (Metropolitan), this book will be enthusiastically championed by librarians and high school and college teachers--who embrace graphic novels because they connect so immediately with students and are often the most direct and effective way of communicating complex ideas. In fact, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund released a first-of-its-kind survey last fall to finally offer concrete evidence of the rate at which teachers and students are embracing comics as valuable tools in the classroom.
Joel Christian Gill has spent his career telling the untold stories of African-American heroes in comics in the acclaimed series' Strange Fruit and Tales of the Talented Tenth. He is currently Associate Professor of Illustration at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. An educator, historian, cartoonist, advocate, and activist, already recognized and beloved by teachers, librarians and students, he could not be a more ideal partner in realizing this ambitious project. His graphic memoir Fights was released last week with incredible blurbs and early praise and is also sure to raise his profile.
Since the publication of Stamped, Ibram X. Kendi has emerged as one of the leading voices, if not the leading voice, on race in America. He is booked solid right now, promoting his New York Times bestselling memoir, How To Be An Antiracist--which is literally everywhere. He is also the Founding Director of The Antiracist Research & Policy Center at American University in Washington, DC. where he launched the first-ever Antiracist Bookfair to take place annually in April. He is an ideas columnist at The Atlantic and a frequent commentator on CBS This Morning.
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Published 2023-06-06 by Three Rivers Press |