From #BlackLivesMatter to Black liberation / Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.

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"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 reigni...

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Main Author: Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, [2016]
Subjects:
Obama, Barack > Influence.
Obama, Barack.
Since 1975
African Americans > Social conditions > 1975-
Social movements > United States > 21st century.
African Americans > Employment > History.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Police brutality > United States.
Police misconduct > United States.
Race discrimination > United States.
Post-racialism > United States.
African Americans > Employment.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Police brutality.
Police misconduct.
Post-racialism.
Race discrimination.
Race relations.
Social movements.
United States > Race relations.
United States.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:270 pages ; 22 cm
Variant Title:
From hashtag Black Lives Matter to Black liberation.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Black awakening in Obama's America
  • A culture of racism
  • From civil rights to colorblind
  • Black faces in high places
  • The double standard of justice
  • Barack Obama: the end of an illusion
  • Black Lives Matter : a movement, not a moment
  • From #BlackLivesMatter to Black liberation.