Russel's history of ideas traces a (fairly) straight line through schools of western thought which builds from one thinker to another. Finally, there are antiracists who believe these distinctions between races and cultures are largely bullshit.
Then there are assimilationists who largely believe non-white people could improve, and become whiter, if only they would straighten up a little. First, there are segregationists who place non-white people in a fundamentally different category than themselves. Kendi's argument lays out three competing ideologies which reveal themselves during discussions of race in America dating back to pilgrim days.
Like Bertrand Russel's The History of Western Philosophy (1945), Stamped from the Beginning is a hulking 584-page narrative archeology of ideas.
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