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

Author

Barbara Ransby

Call Number

• 323.1196 R212 (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

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.

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.