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Biography
Ibram X. Kendi (born 1982) is an American author and historian located at the University of Florida. He won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for his book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.
Background
Ibram X. Kendi was born in 1982 in Jamaica, Queens. He received his undergraduate degree in Journalism and African American Studies in from Florida A&M in 2004, and gained in 2010 his doctorate in African American Studies from Temple University.
Career
Kendi has published a number of essays in both 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. He is the author of two books: The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965–1972 and Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction.