Introduction

Dan from the beginning is a striking graphic novel edition of the National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas have shaped American life. Racism has persisted throughout history, but so have anti-racist efforts to dismantle it. Through deep research and a gripping narrative that illuminates the lives of five key American figures, Ibram X. Kendi reveals how understanding and improving the world cannot happen without identifying and facing the racist forces that shaped it. In collaboration with award-winning historian and comic artist Joel Christian Gill, stamped from the beginning explores with vivid clarity and dimensionality the living history of America.