Book award winner to speak at W&J
National Book Award winner Ibram Kendi will give a free lecture at 7:30 p.m. today in Room 100 of the Dieter-Porter Life Sciences Building at Washington & Jefferson College.
Kendi’s lecture, “Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America,” is based on his award-winning book of the same title.
Kendi, a New York Times best-selling author, has published essays in numerous books and academic journals, including the Journal of African American History; Journal of Social History; Journal of Black Studies; Journal of African American Studies; and The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture.
In addition to “Stamped From the Beginning,” Kendi also is the author of “The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstruction of Higher Education, 1965-1972,” and is the associate editor of Black Perspectives.
Kendi is an assistant professor of African American history at the University of Florida.