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From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
- Author
- Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- Narrator
- Mia Ellis
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 31 May 2016
- Run Time
- 11 hours 15 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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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- Author
- Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- Narrator
- Mia Ellis
- Duration
- 11 hours 15 minutes
- Release Date
- 31 May 2016
- ISBN
- 9781515974673
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Politics and government, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Human rights, civil rights, Society and culture: general, Ethnic studies, Social classes
Synopsis
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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