From #BlackLivesMatter to Black liberation / Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.
Publisher: Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, [2016]Description: 270 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781608465620
- 1608465624
- From hashtag Black Lives Matter to Black liberation
- From Black Lives Matter to Black liberation
- Black lives matter movement
- African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- Racism -- United States -- 21st century
- Racial profiling in law enforcement -- United States
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration
- 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
- Obama, Barack -- Influence
- 305.896/073 23
- E185.86 .T373 2016
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-256) and index.
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.
"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"--Front flap.