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Making all Black lives matter : reimagining freedom in the twenty-first century

Title
Making all Black lives matter : reimagining freedom in the twenty-first century / Barbara Ransby.
ISBN
9780520292703
0520292707
9780520292710
0520292715
Publication
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Physical Description
xiv, 221 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary
"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, Black Lives Matter appeared to burst onto the national political landscape out of thin air. But as Barbara Ransby shows in Making All Black Lives Matter, the movement has roots in prison abolition, anti-police violence, black youth movements, and radical mobilizations across the country dating back at least a decade. Ransby interviewed more than a dozen of the movement's principal organizers and activists, and she provides a detailed review of its extensive coverage in mainstream and social media. Making All Black Lives Matter offers one of the first overviews of Black Lives Matter and explores the challenges and possible future for this growing and influential movement."--Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Ransby, Barbara. Making all Black lives matter. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 03, 2018
Series
American studies now ; 6.
American studies now: critical histories of the present ; 6
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
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.
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