Name: Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi - “Stamped” and the Story of Racism in the U.S. | The Daily Show
Uploaded: 2020-03-25T05:50:05.000Z
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-Thank you, thank you. -Uh, great to see you again.

would see the cover and go like, "Why would I read this?"

The first thing you say is, "This is not a history book."

Uh, look, I-I chose to start the book that way,

because this book is geared toward younger people,

and younger people don't like to read history books.

Uh, the other part of it, the other part of it, though,

But the truth is that history is perennial.

It runs through our lives... our lives every single day.

-Right. -And it's more about it being a present book

-that history actually impacts. -That's really interesting,

I didn't know what to expect. You know, you read books

that tell you about the history of America,

you read books that only focus on racism today,

or maybe even jim crow, but this book really just takes you

through everything in a way that seems like it's palatable.

that you can just read it and understand without...

Is that what you've tried to do for younger readers?

And what that means is, it's rooted in the past,

but you can constantly see it operating in your daily life,

and you constantly see how it's gonna operate tomorrow.

And that's what we wanted to sort of show for young people,

that this history book is in the present,

so they can understand their everyday lives.

NOAH: When you... when you wrote the book,

Jason and Ibram, and you... and you worked on this,

in the book, which is really interesting.

It doesn't follow the format of a normal book.

You know, sometimes, the way you write on a page,

It really does engage you in a certain way.

that we're working with, uh, the realities of young folks,

-Oh. -I-I can't compete with cell phones,

and all these things that they have going on

by creating multiple stimuli within the pages of a book.

you-you might have hit on another opportunity.

You-you just add, like, an expansion onto Fortnite

-that just teaches you about racism. -Exactly.

-There's, like, challenges. -Don't give too much away.

They may go like, "Man, racism was so bad back then,

"so bad during jim crow, segregation, et cetera,

We wanted to write a history about anti-racism.

We wanted to show them how people have been fighting

-against anti-racism from its... from its origins. -NOAH: Mm-hmm.

And people are fighting against it today,

And-and here is essentially how people have done it in the past,

and here's how you can be effective today.