From Rights to Lives
eBook - ePub

From Rights to Lives

The Evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

From Rights to Lives

The Evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle

About this book

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 dissension—core aspects of movement work—mark 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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Yes, you can access From Rights to Lives by Françoise N. Hamlin, Charles W. McKinney, Françoise N. Hamlin,Charles W. McKinney,Charles W. McKinney, Jr. in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & African American History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction. From Rights to Lives: History Matters
  9. 1. “Sincerely, Your Grandparents’ Hands”: Elucidating Similarities between the Trayvon Martin Generation of #BlackLivesMatter and the Emmett Till Generation of the Civil Rights Movement
  10. 2. Continuity and Change: The Spirituality of Liberation in the Black Lives Matter Movement
  11. 3. Good Cops?
  12. 4. “We May Have to Defend Ourselves”: Black Women and Campaigns against Police Sexual Violence during the Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter Eras
  13. 5. Revolts of the Black Athletes: Race, Sport, and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter
  14. 6. The Search for Truth and Justice: A Diasporic Black Freedom Struggle
  15. 7. The Ambivalence of Activist Photography: July 10, 2016
  16. 8. When the Cultural Revolution Comes: Anthem Making in the Era of BLM
  17. Postscript. “Miraculous, Magnificent, and Messy”: Rights, Lives, and the Movement in Real Time
  18. Contributors