From Rights to Lives
The Evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle
1st Edition
Published on 15. March 2024
274 pages
978-0-8265-0668-9 (ISBN)
Description
Broadly speaking, the traditionally conceptualized mid-twentieth-century Civil Rights Movement and the newer #BlackLivesMatter Movement possess some similar qualities. They both represent dynamic, complex moments of possibility and progress. They also share mass-based movement activities, policy/legislative advocacy, grassroots organizing, and targeted media campaigns. Innovation, growth, and dissensioncore aspects of movement workmark them both. Crucially, these moments also engender aggressive, repressive, multilevel responses to these assertions of Black humanity.From Rights to Lives critically engages the dynamic relationship between these two moments of liberatory possibility on the Black Freedom Struggle timeline. The book's contributors explore what we can learn when we place these moments of struggle in dialogue with each other. They grapple with how our understanding of the postwar moment shapes our analysis of #BLM and wherein lie the discontinuities, in order to glean lessons for future moments of insurgency.
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Scott Brooks | Mickell Carter | Charity Clay
From Rights to Lives
The Evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle
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03/2024
Vanderbilt University Press
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: From Rights to Lives: History Matters
- 1. "Sincerely, Your Grandparents' Hands": Elucidating Similarities between the Trayvon Martin Generation of #BlackLivesMatter and the Emmett Till Generation of the Civil Rights Movement
- 2. Continuity and Change: The Spirituality of Liberation in the Black Lives Matter Movement
- 3. Good Cops?
- 4. "We May Have to Defend Ourselves": Black Women and Campaigns against Police Sexual Violence during the Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter Eras
- 5. Revolts of the Black Athletes: Race, Sport, and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter
- 6. The Search for Truth and Justice: A Diasporic Black Freedom Struggle
- 7. The Ambivalence of Activist Photography: July 10, 2016
- 8. When the Cultural Revolution Comes: Anthem Making in the Era of BLM
- Postscript: "Miraculous, Magnificent, and Messy": Rights, Lives, and the Movement in Real Time
- Contributors
