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Comp Cams ROCKER ARM, "ULTRA GOLD" SBC 7/16" 1.5Ultra GoldT ARC Series Aluminum Rocker Arm; Chevy, 7 16" Stud, 1. 5 Ratio (1) The original Ultra GoldT Aluminum Rockers changed the way racing and high performance street engine builders approached valve train design. Now, COMP Cams is revolutionizing valve train performance again with the next generation of Ultra GoldT ARC Series Aluminum Rocker Arms, featuring an Arced, Recessed, Contoured design. Using cutting edge design techniques and

Ultra-GoldT ARC Series Aluminum Rocker Arm; Chevy, 7/16" Stud, 1.5 Ratio (1)

The original Ultra-GoldT Aluminum Rockers changed the way racing and high performance street engine builders approached valve train design. Now, COMP Cams® is revolutionizing valve train performance again with the next generation of Ultra-GoldT ARC Series Aluminum Rocker Arms, featuring an Arced, Recessed, Contoured design. Using cutting edge design techniques and manufacturing processes, Ultra-GoldT ARC Rockers increase engine power, enhance valve train stability and improve oiling. Ultra-GoldT ARC Rockers feature a new extrusion based on improvements developed through FEA analysis, resulting in an even stronger, stiffer body without compromising mass. A new arced channel and contoured top, similar to a bridge design, give the rockers the best strength-to-weight ratio possible. The body has additional CNC contouring to improve clearances for valve covers and springs. Manufactured entirely in the U.S.A., all Ultra-GoldT ARC Series Aluminum Rocker Arms feature a spring oiler channel through the body for improved lubrication. Trunnion retaining clips have been replaced with an ultra durable spiral lock type clip, similar to what holds a piston pin in place. Stress relieving radii have also been added to areas of the body, trunnion and pushrod seat insert. Even the included locking nuts have been revised to increase surface area to better maintain lash and eliminate wear.

  • Next gen Ultra-GoldT Rockers increase engine power, enhance valve train stability & improve oiling
  • New extrusion based on improvements developed through FEA analysis, resulting in an even stronger, stiffer body without compromising mass
  • Arced channel & contoured top give the rockers the best strength to weight ratio possible
  • Exclusive spiral lock type clips replace retaining clips


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1969 - 1974 Chevrolet Blazer Base
1969 - 1972 Chevrolet Brookwood Base
1978 - 1980 Chevrolet C10 Big Ten
1975 - 1981 Chevrolet C10 Cheyenne
1975 - 1980 Chevrolet C10 Custom Deluxe
1975 - 1986 Chevrolet C10 Custom, Silverado, Scottsdale
1981 Chevrolet C10 Deluxe
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1975 - 1980 Chevrolet C20 Custom Deluxe
1981 Chevrolet C20 Deluxe
1961 - 1974 Chevrolet C20 Pickup Base
1968 - 1974 Chevrolet C20 Suburban Base
1981 - 1986 Chevrolet C20 Suburban Custom
1975 - 1980 Chevrolet C20 Suburban Custom Deluxe
1981 Chevrolet C20 Suburban Deluxe
1975 - 1986 Chevrolet C20 Suburban Silverado, Scottsdale
1975 - 1982 Chevrolet C30 Base
1975 - 1981 Chevrolet C30 Cheyenne
1981 - 1986 Chevrolet C30 Custom
1975 - 1980 Chevrolet C30 Custom Deluxe
1981 Chevrolet C30 Deluxe
1975 - 1986 Chevrolet C30 Silverado, Scottsdale
1961 - 1974 Chevrolet C30 Pickup Base
1967 - 1980 Chevrolet Camaro Base
1979 - 1986 Chevrolet Camaro Berlinetta
1985 - 1986 Chevrolet Camaro Iroc-Z
1973 - 1978 Chevrolet Camaro LT
1976 - 1978 Chevrolet Camaro LT Rally Sport
1976 - 1980 Chevrolet Camaro Rally Sport
1967 - 1975 Chevrolet Camaro RS
1981 - 1986 Chevrolet Camaro Sport
1967 - 1972 Chevrolet Camaro SS
1967 - 1986 Chevrolet Camaro Z28
1982 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 Indianapolis 500 Pace Car
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1973 - 1986 Chevrolet Caprice Classic
1986 Chevrolet Caprice Classic Brougham
1976 - 1982 Chevrolet Caprice Classic Estate
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1973 - 1974 Chevrolet Caprice Estate
1975 Chevrolet Caprice Estate Wagon
1979 Chevrolet Caprice Landau
1967 - 1968 Chevrolet Chevelle 300
1967 - 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle 300 Deluxe
1964 - 1972 Chevrolet Chevelle Base, SS
1967 - 1972 Chevrolet Chevelle Concours
1969 - 1972 Chevrolet Chevelle Concours Estate, Greenbrier
1965 - 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle Deluxe
1968 - 1972 Chevrolet Chevelle Nomad, Malibu
1963 - 1967 Chevrolet Chevy II Base
1963 - 1968 Chevrolet Chevy II Nova
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1955 - 1986 Chevrolet Corvette Base
1982 Chevrolet Corvette Collector's Edition
1978 - 1986 Chevrolet Corvette Indianapolis 500 Pace Car
1978 Chevrolet Corvette Silver Anniversary Edition
1975 - 1976 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray
1958 Chevrolet Del Ray Base
1959 - 1986 Chevrolet El Camino Base
1975 - 1977 Chevrolet El Camino Classic
1977 - 1986 Chevrolet El Camino Conquista
1968 - 1974 Chevrolet El Camino Custom
1979 - 1981 Chevrolet El Camino Royal Knight
1968 - 1986 Chevrolet El Camino SS
1983 Chevrolet G10 Base
1981 - 1986 Chevrolet G10 Bonaventure
1975 - 1986 Chevrolet G10 Sportvan, Chevy Van, Beauville
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1983 - 1984 Chevrolet G20 Bonaventure
1978 - 1981 Chevrolet G20 Nomad
1975 - 1986 Chevrolet G20 Sportvan, Beauville, Chevy Van
1968 - 1974 Chevrolet G20 Van Base, Sportvan
1983 - 1984 Chevrolet G30 Bonaventure
1975 - 1986 Chevrolet G30 Hi-Cube, Chevy Van, Beauville, Sportvan
1970 - 1974 Chevrolet G30 Van Sportvan, Base
1959 - 1985 Chevrolet Impala Base
1975 - 1977 Chevrolet Impala Custom
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1981 - 1982 Chevrolet Impala Estate
1977 - 1979 Chevrolet Impala Landau
1975 - 1980 Chevrolet Impala Sport
1964 - 1967 Chevrolet Impala SS
1975 - 1981 Chevrolet K10 Cheyenne
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1981 Chevrolet K10 Deluxe
1975 - 1986 Chevrolet K10 Silverado, Scottsdale
1961 - 1974 Chevrolet K10 Pickup Base
1968 - 1974 Chevrolet K10 Suburban Base
1981 - 1986 Chevrolet K10 Suburban Custom
1975 - 1980 Chevrolet K10 Suburban Custom Deluxe
1981 Chevrolet K10 Suburban Deluxe
1975 - 1986 Chevrolet K10 Suburban Silverado, Scottsdale
1975 - 1981 Chevrolet K20 Cheyenne
1981 - 1986 Chevrolet K20 Custom
1975 - 1980 Chevrolet K20 Custom Deluxe
1981 Chevrolet K20 Deluxe
1975 - 1986 Chevrolet K20 Scottsdale, Silverado
1961 - 1974 Chevrolet K20 Pickup Base
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1981 - 1986 Chevrolet K20 Suburban Custom
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1981 Chevrolet K20 Suburban Deluxe
1975 - 1986 Chevrolet K20 Suburban Silverado, Scottsdale
1977 - 1981 Chevrolet K30 Cheyenne
1981 - 1986 Chevrolet K30 Custom
1977 - 1980 Chevrolet K30 Custom Deluxe
1981 Chevrolet K30 Deluxe
1977 - 1986 Chevrolet K30 Scottsdale, Silverado
1968 - 1974 Chevrolet K30 Pickup Base
1976 Chevrolet K5 Blazer Base
1981 - 1986 Chevrolet K5 Blazer Custom
1975 - 1980 Chevrolet K5 Blazer Custom Deluxe, Cheyenne
1981 Chevrolet K5 Blazer Deluxe
1984 Chevrolet K5 Blazer Scottsdale
1978 - 1986 Chevrolet K5 Blazer Silverado
1969 - 1972 Chevrolet Kingswood Base, Estate
1973 - 1975 Chevrolet Laguna Base
1973 Chevrolet Laguna Estate
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1974 Chevrolet Laguna Type S-3
1964 - 1981 Chevrolet Malibu Base
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1979 Chevrolet Malibu Police
1977 - 1980 Chevrolet Malibu Sport, Classic Sport
1970 - 1986 Chevrolet Monte Carlo Base
1983 Chevrolet Monte Carlo CL
1973 - 1981 Chevrolet Monte Carlo Landau
1986 Chevrolet Monte Carlo LS
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1983 - 1986 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS
1978 - 1979 Chevrolet Monza 2+2 Sport
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1977 Chevrolet Monza Mirage
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1978 Chevrolet Monza Sport
1976 Chevrolet Monza Towne Coupe Spyder
1976 - 1977 Chevrolet Monza Towne Coupe, Towne Coupe Sport, Towne Coupe Cabriolet
1969 - 1979 Chevrolet Nova Base
1976 - 1977 Chevrolet Nova Concours
1973 - 1979 Chevrolet Nova Custom
1975 Chevrolet Nova LN
1975 - 1978 Chevrolet Nova Police
1977 - 1979 Chevrolet Nova Rally
1976 Chevrolet Nova SS
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1977 Oldsmobile Omega F85, Deluxe
1977 - 1978 Oldsmobile Omega SX
1977 - 1979 Oldsmobile Starfire Base, Firenza, SX, GT
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1984 - 1986 Pontiac Bonneville LE
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1977 - 1981 Pontiac Firebird Esprit, Formula
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1978 - 1980 Pontiac Grand Am Base
1978 Pontiac Grand LeMans SA
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1978 - 1980 Pontiac Grand Prix SJ
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1977 Pontiac LeMans Sport Coupe, Sport
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★★★★★ 5
Every american should be encouraged to read this text
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This book had a profound impact on me. It has changed how I view all political discussions, history discussions, policy discussions, and race discussions. As a Hispanic Caucasian, I was acutely unaware of much of America's racist history. I knew the obvious examples, but this book really shows how extensive the racism is and its profound effects that are still heavily in effect today. Kendi's thesis is short and simple: racist ideas were created to justify racist policies. This is counter to the common argument that ignorance and racism spurs racist policies. Kendi lays out his main thesis at the beginning of the book and follows it up with example after example to back it up. Keeping the thesis and definition of racism simple really helps emphasize Kendi's point throughout the book. This book is also thorough; so much history is covered by this book. I spent a lot of time looking up some historical events or figures in more detail on Wikipedia to get a fuller picture. If you are unfamiliar with American history, then expect to move very slowly through the text as you look everything up for proper context. I absolutely love this book and strongly encourage everyone to read it. However, I do have a few gripes with it: - Kendi often misled me with his wording or juxtaposition of statements. I understand he is trying to make a statement, but I wish he wouldn't do this. One example that comes to mind is Roosevelt's naming of the White House. Kendi makes it seem like Roosevelt named it the White House after the public uproar over his invitation of Booker T. Washington over for dinner. However, there doesn't appear to be any evidence to support this, and there is some indication the White House was already referred to by that name well before the dinner. To Kendi's credit, he doesn't explicitly say the naming was done to appease the public, he just points out that it happened and people were still upset. Another example is his mention of black unemployment rates rising sharply in the early 1980s. This is true, but all unemployment rates rose during that time due to the recession. Yes, the black unemployment rate was worse, but he doesn't make that point: he only mentions the black unemployment rates. So as a reader you have to be careful of the facts you internalize from the book. - The organization of the book didn't really do anything for me. He tries to break down the text into 4 main sections, each focusing on a different historical figure. However, the focus on the figures didn't really contribute much, in my opinion, to his thesis. It brought some organization to his book, but not much. I would have preferred he spent more of the book going into details of some of the more significant policies or events than to keep looping the historical figure back in. - Text can read a bit haphazardly at times. There are certain sections of the book where I feel Kendi is jumping around history pretty quickly to different events and it becomes difficult for me to follow. Eventually he gets around to making a point, but it usually takes too long for me to fully grasp it at the moment. I have to often re-read these sections a second time to really get it. Again, please buy this book and read it. We would all be better off to know this history and the racist policies behind it.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2018
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A. H. Wagner
Whiting, US
★★★★★ 5
A very painful but highly illuminating must-read on how racism took root and persists in the US
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About halfway through reading this book, I realized I was highlighting almost every single page and had to start color-coding my highlights so as to make a little more sense of why certain passages struck me—a visual testimony of how illuminating Stamped from the Beginning is. With a primary focus on racism toward African-Americans and people identified as Black, this book is a thoroughly researched, sweepingly comprehensive survey of racism from its first traceable roots in ancient Greece when Aristotle said Africans had “burnt faces” to the start of the African slave trade in 15th century Europe, to the first recorded slave ship arriving in colonial America in 1619, all the way through the Civil War, the Jim Crow laws, the 1960s Civil Rights movement, and up to the present day. In order to help readers navigate this extensive timeline, author Ibram X. Kendi divides the book into five parts, featuring one historical figure as a sort of tour guide or anchor for each part. Very few individuals or institutions mentioned in this book come off as completely free of racist thinking; even many abolitionists and civil rights activists are revealed to have held racist ideas that contradicted their cause. This made me realize the extent to which racism has ensnared the United States in its pernicious roots. In Stamped from the Beginning, Kendi presents two main ideas about racism that helped me understand its influence and progress over the centuries. First, he explains that “Hate and ignorance have not driven the history of racist ideas in America. Racist policies have driven the history of racist ideas in America.” The author admits, “I was taught the popular folktale of racism: that ignorant and hateful people had produced racist ideas, and that these racist people had instituted racist policies. But when I learned the motives behind the production of many of America’s most influentially racist ideas, it became quite obvious that this folktale, though sensible, was not based on a firm footing of historical evidence.” As Kendi explains further, “Racially discriminatory policies have usually sprung from economic, political, and cultural self-interests, self-interests that are constantly changing.” Now that I understand self-interest—not hate or ignorance—has been the driving factor behind racist policies, I can better understand why racism hasn’t died out with the Emancipation Proclamation or desegregation or any of the Civil Rights Acts passed in this country. Tragically, racism persists and continues to evolve according to the current self-interests of people and institutions in power. It’s why, after slavery was abolished, segregation and the Jim Crow laws rushed in to replace it, and long after segregation has been outlawed, African-Americans continue to be oppressed by disproportionate mass incarceration as well as disadvantaged by fewer, inferior housing and employment opportunities. Second, Kendi points out that racism is not simply a debate between those who support racist ideas and those who oppose racist ideas. Throughout history, three–not two–viewpoints on racism have persisted: “A group we can call segregationists has blamed Black people themselves for the racial disparities. A group we can call antiracists has pointed to racial discrimination. A group we can call assimilationists has tried to argue for both, saying that Black people and racial discrimination were to blame for racial disparities.” As much as I would like to believe I am firmly in the antiracist camp, reading this book made me realize I have held a lot of racist ideas from an assimilationist viewpoint that I need to correct. Kendi gives many examples of well-meaning civil rights activists, including some African-Americans, who upheld assimilationist ideas. Some persisted with these ideas their entire lives, others realized their error and later self-corrected to an antiracist viewpoint, and still others upheld both antiracist and assimilationist ideas, often not realizing the contradiction. Thus, a tragic pattern that has repeated itself throughout American history is the persistence of many assimilationists in seeking to abolish racist policies and ideas with the same flawed strategies that never work. Indeed, the African-American author admits, “Even though I am an African studies historian and have been tutored all my life in egalitarian spaces, I held racist notions of Black inferiority before researching and writing this book.” I think it’s crucially important that Kendi tells readers about his mistaken notions of race—not to make readers feel better about their own ignorance, but to demonstrate how deeply racist ideas have taken root in American culture. Hopefully this admission on the author’s part will ease readers out of their defensive mode and open their minds to the disturbing truth that racism is a lot more pervasive among us Americans than we would like to believe. If you want to understand exactly how racism took root in the United States and why it has persisted through the present day, if you are prepared for a very sobering, very painful, and often highly disturbing look at the many flaws, hypocrisies, and atrocities in the American notions of democracy, exceptionalism, and “liberty and justice for all,” then Stamped from the Beginning is a must-read. Ultimately, what the author conveys with copious examples is that “Black Americans’ history of oppression has made Black opportunities—not Black people—inferior.” An absolutely necessary emendation to the traditionally accepted canon of American history.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2017
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James H. Lee
Carnegie, US
★★★★★ 5
Painful but excellent exploration of racist ideas in American history
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Professor Kendi's fine study, which deservedly won a National Book Award, illuminates in a new way the history of racism in the US. Focusing on ideas rather than government policy, he documents the tenacity of an outlook that has stained the 400 year history of the American people. He begins with a simple, and I think unimpeachable, definition of racism: any argument or idea that attributes to an entire ethnic group intellectual or moral superiority or inferiority. Racists invariably explain these differences between ethnic groups as a product of biology, in an effort to shelter behind a scientific patina ideas that cannot survive rigorous scientific investigation. He organizes the book around five American thinkers, Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Dubois, and Angela Davis. In each section, he also discusses the ideas of contemporaries of these individuals, dividing people into one of three groups: segregationists (racists who blamed blacks for their own plight); assimilationists (whites and even some blacks who attributed inequality partially to environment but still accepted the racist idea that all blacks shared some responsibility for discrimination); antiracists, who rejected the notion that any type of inferiority could be associated with all African Americans. Kendi has written an angry book, as would any author sensitive to the devastating impact of America's original sin. He shows how racist ideas, like the villain in contemporary horror movies, never suffer a final defeat. As soon as one explanation for alleged racial differences falls out of favor, a different one emerges from the (so far) undrainable swamp of prejudice to take its place. This resiliency demonstrates that racism does not stem from ignorance, but reflects the self-interest of those who benefit from the privileges conferred by supression of ethnic equality. The author's anger does not target any specific group. Few of his subjects (including himself) escape unscathed from his sharp analysis. Probably the most surprising revelation of this book is the extent to which even fierce defenders of black equality sometimes accepted some of the insidious ideas of racism and blamed African Americans for the discrimination they experienced. Thus the real target of Professor Kendi's anger is racism itself, the pervasiveness of which does not exempt even black Americans from its influence. Even this fine work of scholarship is not, in my opinion, free of flaws. In his evaluation of historical figures, he seems to judge them by their conformity to our values and standards. To judge Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass for their failure to measure up to this generation's views of racism may accurately pinpoint some of the shortcomings especially in Lincoln's attitudes. But to criticize a 19th century president, caught in the impossible pressures of a savage civil war for having mixed motives in his emancipation policy displays a willful refusal to evaluate his behavior according to the context of the times in which he lived. (Absurd comments to the effect that Lincoln was "scared to death" when Lee threatened Washington during his invasion of the north in 1862 reveal more about Kendi than they do about the president.) But even if I have correctly identified flaws in the book, this is an important and exceptionally fine work of scholarship, which anyone concerned about the future of race relations in the US should read.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2017
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Stephanie
Carnegie, US
★★★★★ 5
Essential reading
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I wish I’d learnt this history decades ago. This book illuminates how the world has, for many of us, come to be seen through a white supremacist lens. It provides religious, political, technological, sociological context over centuries and Millenia. It explains the justifications used to treat our fellow humans as ‘less than’ - the sort of thinking that we in the ‘western’, white, colonial world have inherited, that persists through literature, philosophy and mythology, and that continues to fuel bigotry and oppression today. Eye opening. Can’t recommend more highly (book, kindle, audiobook).
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Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2026
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Martin Firestein
Waukegan, US
★★★★★ 5
Perhaps too ambitious for its own good
Having just finished Dr. Kendi's magnum opus on the history of American racism, I can confidently say that this is a very ambitious work. It attempts to describe the political, social, economic, philosophical, and cultural development of racist ideas throughout American history while at the same time, offering biographical sketches of 5 Americans who were/are representative of their time and place (Cotton Matther/Colonial America, Jefferson/Revolutionary era, William Garrison/Civil War and Reconstruction Era, W.E.B. DuBois/Jim Crow era, and Angela Davis/Civil Rights and Black Power era). Perhaps it's a bit too ambitious, though. The amount of ground the book tries to cover prevents it from being able to cover anything in great detail. Thus, the biographies of the 5 individuals are incomplete, and the racist or assimilationist ideas in each time period are discussed superficially. Dr. Kendi's book also jumps around a lot from one subject to another, which can be a bit jarring or disrupt the flow of the narrative. Don't get me wrong. The book does a very good job explaining how a lot of what has passed for antiracism in US history was really assimilationist thinking, and it also convincingly argues that racism and racist policies flow from the political, economic, or social advantages that one group gains by the persecution of the other. However, I am left with the distinct impression that Dr. Kendi should've narrowed his focus to something that could've been more manageable. Perhaps he should've focused exclusively on the difference between antiracism vs assimilation. Perhaps instead of attempting biographies of 5 individuals, he should've devoted each chapter (or section) of the book to discussing the racist or assimilationist ideas of that time period, and how they developed or changed over time. Overall, my best advice would be to get this book and read it, because it's very timely with what's going on right now in America, but for those areas that aren't covered in a lot of detail, I would try to supplement it with other literature.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2020

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