The Resource The making of Black lives matter : a brief history of an idea, Christopher J. Lebron
The making of Black lives matter : a brief history of an idea, Christopher J. Lebron
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- Summary
- "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 argument of present-day activists and public thinkers. Only in this way can we truly embrace and pursue the idea of racial progress in America."--Book jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxii, 187 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: naming the dead in the name of the living
- American shame and real freedom
- Cultural control against social control: the radical possibilities of the harlem renaissance
- For our sons, daughters, and all concerned souls
- Where is the love? the hope for America's redemption
- The radical lessons we have not yet learned
- Afterword: nobody's protest essay
- Isbn
- 9780190601348
- Label
- The making of Black lives matter : a brief history of an idea
- Title
- The making of Black lives matter
- Title remainder
- a brief history of an idea
- Statement of responsibility
- Christopher J. Lebron
- Subject
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- African Americans -- Politics and government -- 21st century
- African Americans -- Social conditions
- African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- Black lives matter movement
- Black lives matter movement
- Bürgerrechtsbewegung
- Equality
- Equality -- United States
- Ethnische Beziehungen
- Gleichheit
- 2000-2099
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights
- Race relations
- Racism
- Racism -- United States
- Schwarze, ..
- Social movements
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
- United States
- United States -- Race relations
- HISTORY / African American
- African Americans -- Politics and government
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 argument of present-day activists and public thinkers. Only in this way can we truly embrace and pursue the idea of racial progress in America."--Book jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lebron, Christopher J
- Dewey number
- 305.896/0730905
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E185.615
- LC item number
- .L393 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Black lives matter movement
- African Americans
- African Americans
- Equality
- Racism
- United States
- Schwarze, ..
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
- HISTORY / African American
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights
- African Americans
- African Americans
- Social movements
- Black lives matter movement
- Equality
- Race relations
- Racism
- United States
- Bürgerrechtsbewegung
- Ethnische Beziehungen
- Gleichheit
- Label
- The making of Black lives matter : a brief history of an idea, Christopher J. Lebron
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: naming the dead in the name of the living -- American shame and real freedom -- Cultural control against social control: the radical possibilities of the harlem renaissance -- For our sons, daughters, and all concerned souls -- Where is the love? the hope for America's redemption -- The radical lessons we have not yet learned -- Afterword: nobody's protest essay
- Control code
- 960033716
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xxii, 187 pages
- Isbn
- 9780190601348
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2016042413
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other control number
- 40027281699
- System control number
- (OCoLC)960033716
- Label
- The making of Black lives matter : a brief history of an idea, Christopher J. Lebron
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: naming the dead in the name of the living -- American shame and real freedom -- Cultural control against social control: the radical possibilities of the harlem renaissance -- For our sons, daughters, and all concerned souls -- Where is the love? the hope for America's redemption -- The radical lessons we have not yet learned -- Afterword: nobody's protest essay
- Control code
- 960033716
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xxii, 187 pages
- Isbn
- 9780190601348
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2016042413
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40027281699
- System control number
- (OCoLC)960033716
Subject
- African Americans -- Politics and government -- 21st century
- African Americans -- Social conditions
- African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- Black lives matter movement
- Black lives matter movement
- Bürgerrechtsbewegung
- Equality
- Equality -- United States
- Ethnische Beziehungen
- Gleichheit
- 2000-2099
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights
- Race relations
- Racism
- Racism -- United States
- Schwarze, ..
- Social movements
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
- United States
- United States -- Race relations
- HISTORY / African American
- African Americans -- Politics and government
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