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From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

By Taylor , Keeanga-Yamahtta

Book information

Publisher
Haymarket Books
Year
2016
ISBN
9781608465637, 1608465632
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1725138 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

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.

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