The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea, Updated Edition Lebron Christopher J.
The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea, Updated Edition Lebron Christopher J. A condensed and accessible intellectual history that traces the genesis of the ideas that have…
Specifikacia The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea, Updated Edition Lebron Christopher J.
The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea, Updated Edition Lebron Christopher J.
A condensed and accessible intellectual history that traces the genesis of the ideas that have built into the #BlackLivesMatter movement in a bid to help us make sense of the emotions, demands, and arguments of present-day activists and public thinkers.Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and incendiary campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in the United States. Lebron argues in this book, the sentiment behind it is not; the plea and demand that Black Lives Matter comes out of a much older and richer tradition arguing for the equal dignity--and not just equal rights--of black people.In this updated edition, The Making of Black The movement is only a few years old, but as Christopher J.