From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Narrated by: Mia Ellis

The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against Black people and punctured the illusion of a postracial America. The Black Lives Matter movement has awakened a new generation of activists.

In this stirring and insightful analysis, activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and the persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and Black unemployment. In this context, she argues that this new struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation.

©2016 Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (P)2016 Tantor

Critic reviews

"From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation is a must read for everyone who is serious about the ongoing praxis of freedom." (Barbara Ransby, author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement)

Excellent Read!

Read this book all ye people of America. The struggle isn't just a black thing, it's a class thing.

amaziing

a must read for everything.Taylor is the scholar of our time no doubt about that.

Critical history for white allies to know

A critical history of black people in the United States told through a structural, institutional and individual lens. A must read for white people striving to be allies in the fight for equity and justice.

mandatory reading

if you think you are a progressive, you aren't until you have read this book!

great book 4 an in depth look @ structural racism

powerful! relevant!

great book 4 an in depth look @ structural racism. please read and share.