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Lebron Christopher J. (Associate Professor Of Philosophy Associate Professor Of Philosophy Johns Hopkins University)
Lebron Christopher J. (Associate Professor Of Philosophy Associate Professor Of Philosophy Johns Hopkins University) - The Making Of Black Lives Matter A Brief History Of An Idea Updated Edition - Paperback
Lebron Christopher J. (Associate Professor Of Philosophy Associate Professor Of Philosophy Johns Hopkins University) - The Making Of Black Lives Matter A Brief History Of An Idea Updated Edition - Paperback
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Description: A condensed and accessible intellectual history that traces the genesis of the ideas that have built into the # Black Lives Matter movement in a bid to help us make sense of the emotions demands and arguments of present - day activists and public thinkers. Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin the # Black Lives Matter movement has become a powerful and incendiary 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. In this updated edition The Making of Black Lives Matter presents a condensed and accessible intellectual history of the # Black Lives Matter movement and expands on the movement's relevancy. This edition includes a new introduction that explores how the movement's core ideas have been challenged re - affirmed and re - imagined during the white nationalism of the Trump years as well as a new chapter that examines the ideas and importance of Angela Davis and Amiri Baraka as significant participants in the Black Power Movement and Black Arts Movement respectively. Drawing on the work of these revolutionary black public intellectuals as well as 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.
Title: The Making Of Black Lives Matter A Brief History Of An Idea Updated Edition
Author(s): Lebron Christopher J. (Associate Professor Of Philosophy Associate Professor Of Philosophy Johns Hopkins University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780197577356
Pages: 264 Pages
Publication Date: 6/1/2023
Category: Social & Cultural History
Description: A condensed and accessible intellectual history that traces the genesis of the ideas that have built into the # Black Lives Matter movement in a bid to help us make sense of the emotions demands and arguments of present - day activists and public thinkers. Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin the # Black Lives Matter movement has become a powerful and incendiary 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. In this updated edition The Making of Black Lives Matter presents a condensed and accessible intellectual history of the # Black Lives Matter movement and expands on the movement's relevancy. This edition includes a new introduction that explores how the movement's core ideas have been challenged re - affirmed and re - imagined during the white nationalism of the Trump years as well as a new chapter that examines the ideas and importance of Angela Davis and Amiri Baraka as significant participants in the Black Power Movement and Black Arts Movement respectively. Drawing on the work of these revolutionary black public intellectuals as well as 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.
Title: The Making Of Black Lives Matter A Brief History Of An Idea Updated Edition
Author(s): Lebron Christopher J. (Associate Professor Of Philosophy Associate Professor Of Philosophy Johns Hopkins University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780197577356
Pages: 264 Pages
Publication Date: 6/1/2023
Category: Social & Cultural History