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The Social Protests of 2020: Visceral Responses to Police Brutality, COVID-19, and Circumscribed Sexuality collects voices from various Black intellectuals — university professors, a scientist, media communication specialist, poets, a visual artist, and political activists — to illustrate how the simultaneity of high-profile political events in the summer of 2020 manifest in our consciousness at one time. Reflecting the contributors’ honest visceral responses, the chapters reveal the anguish, sadness, and motivation to act that each of them experienced in light of police brutality, COVID-19, and the Supreme Court's handling of employment discrimination against LGBTQIA+ communities. These voices address, in carefully reflected and theoretically formed ways, those universal feelings that level all human beings, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexuality, economic status, and education.

Table of Contents

Chapter I: The Space Between Grief and Gratitude: A Letter to My Beloved Friends”
Ana-Maurine Lara
Chapter II: “Moving to the Left: Black Response to Structural Violence”
Wende Marshall
Chapter III: “People Who Have Done Bad Things: Why the Idea of Police Has Failed”
Melba Joyce Boyd
Chapter IV: “Sanctioned Murders: An Epidemic Disease”
Joyce A. Joyce
Chapter V: “No Love: 'Tennis' in the Era of Pills, Exceptionalism, and Black Lives Matter”
Gregory E. Rutledge,
Chapter VI: “Better Late than Never”
Donna Marie Peters
Chapter VII: “The Brotherhood Gone Viral: Reading Invisible Man on #blackouttuesday”
Margarita M. Castromán Soto
Chapter VIII: “To Protect and Serve: Medieval Knights, the Police, and Sexual Violence”
Carissa M. Harris
Chapter IX: Fieldwork, Flowers, and the Force: A Perspective on Gender Expression, Profession, Race, and Policing”
Élan R. Alford
Chapter X: “The Toll of Devaluing Black People's Humanity Is to Live in a Nation that Will Feel Like Home to No One”
Yvonne Fulmore
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Product details

Published 25 May 2023
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 260
ISBN 9781666936513
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 1 b/w illustrations;
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
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