Now that I have finished Stamped, I can say that I understand why the author decided to call the book this way, I might be wrong, but this is what I took from the book. Now I know that there is the original book that this Stamped one was created on, but there is obviously a deeper meaning to this word from the two books.
Stamped means a mark or a pattern which is stuck on something, and racial problems have always been stuck within the American History, and this book shows all of it.
From Slavery in the beginning of this nation, it became a much more bigger problem as people of color were being forced to work for white people. Slavery is obviously bad, so that's why Slave-owners would try to make whatever excuse in order to prove that they were not wrong, that they were helping the slaves and the slaves were just a minority at the end of the day. When Black people rose up for the first time and fought for their freedom, they never got it and instead were humiliated even more, making segregation a normal thing. When Black people rose up again, there were laws created that really didn't do anything, and because nothing changed, millions of black lives were killed or mistreated. But finally, when Black people rose one more time, America was able to see that they are humans, just like whites.
And don't get me wrong, of course there are other races which also were mistreated such as Native Americans and Latinos, but I think Black people are the most who have not been seen as humans and who we know about the most.
Even though everything is much better than years ago, racism towards black people still exists which honestly, come on guys, it's been 200 years or so. America is not ready to confront equality yet and instead finding other scapegoats, just like it happened years ago when slave owners would say black people were dummer then them, so they must be used for slavery.
All of these things were the truth about America, a hard truth which would be stamped in their history and culture.
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