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Cargando... They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movementpor Wesley Lowery
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Excellent overview of the early Black Lives Matter movement--the events that created it and several prominent activists championing it. I nearly broke down in tears in public revisiting the events that happened here in my hometown of St. Louis. Necessary read for anyone interested in social justice. This account of the revitalization of the protest movement gets four stars, mainly for its great introductions to the key players, such as Bree Newsome, DeRay McKesson, and Brittany Packnett. However, Lowery's narrative is all over the place. His content and writing quality is good, but the book lacked a cohesive through line in which to track the events. Lowery popped back and forth, often mentioning something that happened (for example, Ferguson October), only to drop it and bring it back up later as if it was never mentioned before. It felt cobbled together. Despite this, They Can't Kill Us All was moving, sad, and most of all informative. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML:A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it. Conducting hundreds of interviews during the course of over one year reporting on the ground, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery traveled from Ferguson, Missouri, to Cleveland, Ohio; Charleston, South Carolina; and Baltimore, Maryland; and then back to Ferguson to uncover life inside the most heavily policed, if otherwise neglected, corners of America today. In an effort to grasp the magnitude of the repose to Michael Brown's death and understand the scale of the problem police violence represents, Lowery speaks to Brown's family and the families of other victims other victims' families as well as local activists. By posing the question, "What does the loss of any one life mean to the rest of the nation?" Lowery examines the cumulative effect of decades of racially biased policing in segregated neighborhoods with failing schools, crumbling infrastructure and too few jobs. Studded with moments of joy, and tragedy, They Can't Kill Us All offers a historically informed look at the standoff between the police and those they are sworn to protect, showing that civil unrest is just one tool of resistance in the broader struggle for justice. As Lowery brings vividly to life, the protests against police killings are also about the black community's long history on the receiving end of perceived and actual acts of injustice and discrimination. They Can't Kill Us All grapples with a persistent if also largely unexamined aspect of the otherwise transformative presidency of Barack Obama: the failure to deliver tangible security and opportunity to those Americans most in need of both. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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it disgusts me that not all of those names were known to me. most were, but even then i often didn't know the specifics. that said, it is impossible to know all the names. black men are killed by police in such high numbers that even if i was up on the news and even if the news reported them all, i wouldn't be able to keep up.
lowery does a nice job, though, of showing how these killings specifically ignited the flame that continues today. it's impossible to read this book now and not be taken right to the killing of george floyd and the protests of last summer, and thankfully, to the eventual conviction of floyd's killer. i'd love to have an afterword that addresses the time between the publication of the book and these recent protests. i wonder if it's more of the same, or if it feels different to me (the way ferguson felt different to them at the time) because i'm personally more aware now.
this is a powerful reminder of what is constantly happening to black bodies in our country, and to the fight for justice that is being led by strong black people. an important, and accessible read.
(and, again, a note section in the back of the book with no indication whatsoever in the text that there are endnotes. can we stop this trend please?!?!?) ( )