
The Social Protests of 2020
Visceral Responses to Police Brutality, COVID-19, and Circumscribed Sexuality
Joyce A. Joyce(Editor)
Lexington Books (Publisher)
Published on 5. June 2023
Book
Hardback
260 pages
978-1-6669-3650-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
Joyce A. Joyce's book, The Social Protests of 2020: Visceral Responses to Police Brutality, COVID-19, and Circumscribed Sexuality is an assemblage of visceral, raw, and recognizable reflections on what bearing witness to the global civil unrest sparked by the killing of George Floyd meant for BIPOC scholars, artists, and activists. At the same time, the anthology of beautifully crafted essays interrogates and indicts racism and white supremacy as fulcrum for maintaining an American status quo that upholds violence against the full spectrum of Black bodies. Joyce and the other contributors don't stop there, however; their essays are evidence that courageous vulnerability and self-reflection are part and parcel of the longue duree of Black liberation struggles and critical to individual and collective healing wrought by PTSD (Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder), state-sanctioned violence against Black men, women, and LBGTQIA+ people, and COVID-19 pandemic. Collectively, their experiences, memories, musings, and words point the way we must go if we want to get free. -- Patricia Williams Lessane, Morgan State UniversityMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 b/w illustrations;
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
577 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-6669-3650-6 (9781666936506)
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The Social Protests of 2020
Visceral Responses to Police Brutality, Covid-19, and Circumscribed Sexuality
E-Book
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Lexington Books
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The Social Protests of 2020
Visceral Responses to Police Brutality, Covid-19, and Circumscribed Sexuality
E-Book
05/2023
1st Edition
Lexington Books
€90.99
Available for download
Persons
Joyce A. Joyce is professor in the English Department at Temple University.
Editor
Contributions
Content
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. Castroman 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"
Elan 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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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. Castroman 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"
Elan 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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