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Get Your Knee Off Our Necks : From Slavery to Black Lives Matter / / edited by Bruce E. Johansen, Adebowale Akande



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Titolo: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks : From Slavery to Black Lives Matter / / edited by Bruce E. Johansen, Adebowale Akande Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022
Edizione: 1st ed. 2022.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (359 pages)
Disciplina: 323.1196073
305.800973
Soggetto topico: America - Politics and government
Political sociology
Human rights
World politics
Race
Criminal law
American Politics
Political Sociology
Politics and Human Rights
Political History
Race and Ethnicity Studies
Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law
Persona (resp. second.): JohansenBruce E.
AkandeAdebowale
Nota di contenuto: Chapter 1. I Can’t Breathe: Dying While Black in America: Today’s Lynchings and Ending the Heritage of Slavery -- Chapter 2. The Perils of Populism, Racism, and Sexism: The Trump Lesson Plan for African Americans and Women -- Chapter 3. Penal Populism: The End of Reason -- Chapter 4. White Supremacy and the Politics of Race -- Chapter 5. The Civil Rights Movement in Urban Microcosm: Omaha, Nebraska -- Chapter 6. Blackfacing, White Shaming, and Yellow Journalism: A Jaundiced View of How -- Contemporary PC Erodes First Amendment Principles -- Chapter 7. The U.S. House of Representative Ilhan Omar: Fighting Nativism and White Supremacy in Spirit of Queen Araweelo -- Chapter 8. Scientific Racism, Eugenics and Sanctimonious Treatments of Aboriginal Australians 1869-2008 -- Chapter 9. Brazil and Australia: Indigenous Peoples and the Fires This Time -- Chapter 10. Though the Heavens Should Fall: The Mansfield Decision (1772).
Sommario/riassunto: The death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and the ensuing trial of Derek Chauvin for murder a year later has rubbed raw the bloodiest stain on the United States’ history and its world reputation. The nine minutes and 29 seconds during which Chauvin’s knee crushed the spark of life out of Floyd was not unusual in the history of the United States. Before the U.S. Civil War, slaves were routinely beaten to death for disobeying orders or running away, then often lynched. In roughly two centuries, Blacks have achieved nominal freedom. But, as this book’s opening chapter and expert essays that follow indicate, freedom has been conditional based on inequity of wealth, social, and legal discrimination. None of this is new in the United States; what is new is the number of people rising up in protest, a figure in the millions around the world after Floyd’s murder. This book supplies a readable, scholarly account of recent issues in race and racism in the United States that will be useful for general readers, undergraduate students, and their professors. It will be useful in many fields, including Black studies, other ethnic pursuits, United States history, law, criminal justice, intercultural communication, et al. The work contains a powerful historical narrative followed by several important, essays on subjects including George Floyd’s murder, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and many other victims of systematic racism.
Titolo autorizzato: Get your knee off our necks  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-030-85155-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910522990403321
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