Making all Black lives matter : reimagining freedom in the twenty-first century /
"In the wake of the murder of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012 and the exoneration of his killer, three black women activists launched a hashtag and social-media platform, Black Lives Matter, which would become the rubric for a larger movement. To many, especially those in the media, Bla...
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Format: | Bog |
Sprog: | English |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2018]
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Serier: | American studies now ;
6. |
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
- Roots and recalibrated expectations : prologue to a movement
- Justice for Trayvon : the spark
- The Ferguson uprising and its reverberations
- Black rage and Blacks in power : Baltimore and electoral politics
- Themes, dilemmas, and challenges
- Backlash and a price
- A view from the local : Chicago's fighting spirit
- Political quilters and maroon spaces
- Conclusion
- Epilogue : a personal reflection.