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From #blacklivesmatter To Black Liberation
Paperback Edition: 1
An indispensable contribution to the movement for racial justice in 'postracial' America.
Winner of the 2016 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize for an Especially Notable Book
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 postracial 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 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.
Pages : 288
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Publication date : 2016-01-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Social Sciences, Sociology, Black & Asian Studies, Social Discrimination & Inequality