Nationalism, Social Movements, and Activism in Contemporary ...

Found inside – Page 58The case of Sandra Bland is one worth mentioning as a contrast to the previous stories that involved African-American men whose deaths were not treated ...

Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City

Found insideThis interdisciplinary book provides both an innovative historiography about migration and immigration in the twentieth century and a critical examination of a city located in the former Confederacy.

Teaching for Black Lives

Black students' bodies and minds are under attack. We're fighting back. From the north to the south, corporate curriculum lies to our students, conceals pain and injustice, masks racism, and demeans our Black students.

The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea

American shame and real freedom --Cultural control against social control : the radical possibilities of the Harlem Renaissance --For our sons, daughters, and all concerned souls --Where is the love? : the hope for America's redemption - ...

The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of ... - Page i

Found inside – Page iThrough analysis of the historical traces of sounds of African American performers, Stoever reveals a host of racialized aural representations operating at the level of the unseen—the sonic color line—and exposes the racialized ...

Persuasive Acts: Women's Rhetorics in the Twenty-First Century

In June 2015, Bree Newsome scaled the flagpole in front of South Carolina’s state capitol and removed the Confederate flag. The following month, the Confederate flag was permanently removed from the state capitol.

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and ...

Found insideBy placing the individual stories of Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, Dajerria Becton, Monica Jones, and Mya Hall in the broader context of the twin epidemics of police violence and mass incarceration, Andrea Ritchie documents the evolution of ...

Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from ... - Page i

Found inside – Page iAn "analysis of deeper meaning behind the string of deaths of unarmed citizens like Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Freddie Gray, providing ... [commentary] on the intersection of race and class in America today"--

Unruly Rhetorics: Protest, Persuasion, and Publics

Found insideThe collection concludes with an afterword highlighting and inviting further exploration of the ethical, political, and pedagogical questions unruly rhetorics raise.