awaiting review
Stamped from the Beginning – A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America
by Cassy Lee Since most of the reviews of titles on the Graphic Medicine site deal with visual narratives depicting mental or physical health issues, it may seem odd to include a review of a title like Stamped from the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America. Like Ibram X. Kendi’s hefty 2016 tome of the same title, Joel Christian Gill’s graphic novel adaptation follows five American historical figures as a way to trace the roots of race as a social construct and how race has been used as a tool of oppression ever since. Since it… Read More

