The myth of racial superiority has always been used as a means to acquire power. It created divisions and imposed silence. Racism is intertwined with the construction of the United States. The first step towards building an anti-racist America is recognizing its racist past - and present. The book serves as a guide on how racism was born, how it spread, and how it can ultimately be neutralized. Through a captivating, fast-paced, and powerful narrative, Stamped sheds light even on the most insidious forms of racist perceptions and shows ways to identify and eliminate them. (From the book's back cover presentation) "An amazingly timely and understandable manifesto. With humor, darkness in some points, but at the same time full of information, thoughtful and accurate. Stamped is the book I would have liked to read as a child and I am truly grateful that my children can now read it." (Jacqueline Woodson - Winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in the USA)