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| Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780520966116
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Black lives matter movement; Black power -- United States -- History -- 21st century;
Historian Ransby (Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement), delivers an accessible analysis of contemporary American racial-justice organizing, focusing on the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) and Black Lives Matter (BLM). She gives a wide-ranging overview of grassroots organizations, beginning with the responses to Trayvon Martin's murder and George Zimmerman's acquittal, and the protests in Ferguson, Mo., after Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer. Ransby argues that M4BL and BLM, drawing on black feminist and radical politics that take intersectionality as a founding principle, "rejected representative politics as a stand-in for substantive change in the condition of Black people's lives." The grassroots political organizers described reject neoliberal solutions in order to seek justice for all African-Americans, especially those marginalized by economic inequality and the epidemic of mass incarceration, engaging in actions like shutting down police board meetings to demand indictments after the killing of unarmed civilians. She profiles a variety of contemporary activists, from well-known names like Baltimore's DeRay Mckesson to lesser-known figures like Alisha Sonnier, a teen leading protests and teach-ins in Ferguson. This perceptive resource on radical black liberation movements in the 21st century can inform anyone wanting to better understand why these movements sprang up or how to make social change. (Aug.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Ransby Barbara :
Barbara Ransby is a historian, author, and longtime activist. She is the author of the acclaimed biography Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement . Ransby was one of the founders of African American Women in Defense of Ourselves in 1991 and the Black Radical Congress in 1998. She is the editor of the journal Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society , and Professor and Director of the Social Justice Initiative at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Visit barbararansby.com for tour dates and speaking engagements.
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