Black Lives Matter: The Renewal of the American Black Revolt book by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Black Lives Matter: The Renewal of the American Black Revolt book by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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The killing of Mike Brown by a white police officer marked a breaking point for African-Americans in Ferguson, Missouri. Perhaps it was the inhumanity of the police, who left Brown’s body to rot in the summer heat. Perhaps it was the military arsenal they brought out at the very beginning of the protests. With their guns and armored vehicles, the police declared war on Ferguson’s black residents. How did the Black Lives Matter movement emerge under the first black president? The author examines the “political economy of racism” since the end of slavery, the decline of social movements in the 1960s, and the rise of a black elite quick to relay racist and anti-poor prejudices. She argues for the universalist potential of BLM: African-American and anti-police violence, it can perfectly rally other groups and extend to a general struggle for the redistribution of wealth.
