Christopher J. Lebron

The Making of Black Lives Matter (eBook, ePUB)

A Brief History of an Idea

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and uncompromising campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in the United States. The movement is only a few years old, but as Christopher J. 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. The Making of Black Lives Matter presents a condensed and accessible intellectual history that traces the genesis of the ideas that have built into the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Drawing on the work of revolutionary black public intellectuals, including Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, Langston Hughes, Zora Neal Hurston, Anna Julia Cooper, Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, and Martin Luther King Jr., Lebron clarifies what it means to assert that "Black Lives Matter" when faced with contemporary instances of anti-black law enforcement. He also illuminates the crucial difference between the problem signaled by the social media hashtag and how we think that we ought to address the problem. As Lebron states, police body cameras, or even the exhortation for civil rights mean nothing in the absence of equality and dignity. To upset dominant practices of abuse, oppression and disregard, we must reach instead for radical sensibility. Radical sensibility requires that we become cognizant of the history of black thought and activism in order to make sense of the emotions, demands, and arguments of present-day activists and public thinkers. Only in this way can we truly embrace and pursue the idea of racial progress in America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190601362
• Artikelnr.: 48414193

Autorenporträt

Christopher J. Lebron is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The Color of Our Shame: Race and Justice in Our Time, and is a frequent contributor to The New York Times and the Boston Review.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction to the Updated Edition
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* Introduction to the First Edition: Naming the Dead in the Name of the
Living
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* 1: American Shame and Real Freedom
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* 2: Cultural Control against Social Control: The Radical Possibilities
of the Harlem Renaissance
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* 3: For Our Sons, Daughters, and All Concerned Souls
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* 4: Where Is the Love? The Hope for Americas Redemption
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* 5: The Radical Lessons We Have Not Yet Learned
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* 6: Black, Blues, and America: Amiri Baraka and Angela Davis on The
Freedom to Be Black
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* Afterword: Nobodys Protest Essay
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* Notes
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* Index