04101cam a2200517 i 4500 19410137 BJBSDDR 20240521155659.0 ta 161216s2019 nyu b 001 0 eng 2016042413 9780190910754 0190910755 DLC eng DLC rda DLC eng pcc n-us--- 002 E 185.615 L453m 2019 305.896/0730905 Lebron, Christopher J. 35812 The making of Black lives matter : a brief history of an idea / Christopher J. Lebron. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019 xxii, 187 pages ; 22 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2019"--Title page verso Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: naming the dead in the name of the living -- 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 radical lessons we have not yet learned -- Afterword: nobody's protest essay. Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and uncompromising campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in the United States. The movement is only a few years old, but as Christopher J. Lebron argues in this book, the sentiment behind it is not; the plea and demand that "Black Lives Matter" comes out of a much older and richer tradition arguing for the equal dignity--and not just equal rights--of black people. The Making of Black Lives Matter presents a condensed and accessible intellectual history that traces the genesis of the ideas that have built into the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Drawing on the work of revolutionary black public intellectuals, including Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, Langston Hughes, Zora Neal Hurston, Anna Julia Cooper, Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, and Martin Luther King, Jr., Lebron clarifies what it means to assert that "Black Lives Matter" when faced with contemporary instances of anti-black law enforcement. He also illuminates the crucial difference between the problem signaled by the social media hashtag and how we think that we ought to address the problem. As Lebron states, police body cameras, or even the exhortation for civil rights mean nothing in the absence of equality and dignity. To upset dominant practices of abuse, oppression and disregard, we must reach instead for radical sensibility. Radical sensibility requires that we become cognizant of the history of black thought and activism in order to make sense of the emotions, demands, and argument of present-day activists and public thinkers. Only in this way can we truly embrace and pursue the idea of racial progress in America. Black lives matter movement. Movimiento Black Lives Matter 35810 African Americans Social conditions 21st century. Afroamericanos Condiciones sociales Siglo XXI 7047 African Americans Politics and government 21st century. Afroamericanos Política y gobierno Estados Unidos Siglo XXI. 8215 Equality United States. Igualdad Estados Unidos 269 Racism United States. Racismo Estados Unidos 3624 United States Race relations. Estados Unidos Relaciones raciales 702 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 121272 121272 0 0 lcc 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2024-05-10 0 002 E 185.615 L453m 2019 00000180855 2024-05-10 00:00:00 1 2024-05-10 BK