From #BlackLivesMatter to Black LiberationThe author of Race for Profit carries out “[a] searching examination of the social, political and economic dimensions of the prevailing racial order” (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow). In this winner of the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize for an Especially Notable Book, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor “not only exposes the canard of color-blindness but reveals how structural racism and class oppression are joined at the hip” (Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams). The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against black people and punctured the illusion of a post-racial America. The Black Lives Matter movement has awakened a new generation of activists. In this stirring and insightful analysis, activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and the persistence of structural inequality, such as mass incarceration and black unemployment. In this context, she argues that this new struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for black liberation. “This brilliant book is the best analysis we have of the #BlackLivesMatter moment of the long struggle for freedom in America. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor has emerged as the most sophisticated and courageous radical intellectual of her generation.” —Dr. Cornel West, author of Race Matters “A must read for everyone who is serious about the ongoing praxis of freedom.” —Barbara Ransby, author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement “[A] penetrating, vital analysis of race and class at this critical moment in America’s racial history.” —Gary Younge, author of The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream |
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User Review - JanesList - LibraryThingAn excellent, if dense, look into where Black Lives Matter came from and where it might be going. A lot of history I should have known already, and some well put ideas. I could see the parts that were ... Read full review
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Right wingers wont read this
Contents
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| 21 | |
From Civil Rights to Colorblind | 51 |
Black Faces in High Places | 75 |
The Double Standard of Justice | 107 |
Barack Obama The End of an Illusion | 135 |
Black Lives Matter A Movement Not a Moment | 153 |
From BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation | 191 |
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| Title | From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation |
| Author | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor |
| Publisher | Haymarket Books, 2016 |
| ISBN | 1608465632, 9781608465637 |
| Length | 288 pages |
| Subjects | › › Political Science / Civil Rights Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies Social Science / Minority Studies |
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