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Black Lives Matter: A Reference Handbook: Contemporary World Issues

Autor Shaonta' Allen, Simone N. Durham, Angela Jones
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 iul 2025

Observăm în literatura academică dedicată mișcărilor sociale o nevoie acută de resurse care să depășească analiza de moment pentru a oferi un context istoric și documentar riguros. Volumul Black Lives Matter, publicat de Bloomsbury Publishing în seria Contemporary World Issues, vine să completeze exact această lacună, oferind o sinteză multifatetică a luptei pentru drepturi civile în Statele Unite. Considerăm că forța acestui manual de referință rezidă în capacitatea sa de a ancora mișcarea BLM nu doar în evenimentele recente de brutalitate polițienească, ci într-o succesiune istorică ce începe cu sclavia de tip chattel și trece prin epoca Jim Crow.

Din punct de vedere structural, Shaonta' Allen, Simone N. Durham și Angela Jones organizează materialul într-o progresie logică: de la fundalul istoric și evoluția instituționalizării poliției, până la profiluri ale activiștilor influenți precum Alicia Garza sau Colin Kaepernick. Acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum The Politics of Protest, dar cu o abordare mult mai axată pe instrumente de cercetare; în timp ce alte lucrări se concentrează pe analiza politică, acest handbook oferă cititorului acces direct la documente primare, date guvernamentale și o bibliografie adnotată extrem de utilă pentru studiul individual.

Spre deosebire de The Making of Black Lives Matter, care urmărește preponderent istoria intelectuală a ideilor, volumul de față adoptă o perspectivă interdisciplinară, integrând teoria intersecționalității și eseuri personale. Această structură permite o navigare facilă între rigoarea statistică și experiența trăită a discriminării. Tonul autorilor rămâne echilibrat, abordând inclusiv criticile și controversele care au vizat organizația, oferind astfel o resursă didactică validă pentru învățământul universitar și secundar.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781440879173
ISBN-10: 1440879176
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 7 bw
Dimensiuni: 160 x 232 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Contemporary World Issues

Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și studenților în sociologie sau științe politice care au nevoie de o bază documentară solidă despre mișcările de rezistență rasială. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere sistemică a relației dintre comunitate și poliție în SUA, sprijinită de date oficiale și bibliografii extinse. Este un instrument de lucru esențial pentru oricine dorește să analizeze fenomenul BLM dincolo de titlurile de știri, folosind surse primare verificate.


Descriere

This multifaceted reference work surveys the history, development, leadership, and priorities of Black Lives Matter (BLM), including the group's efforts to raise public awareness of police violence in communities of color.

Beginning with the infamous incidents of police brutality that spurred the creation and growth of BLM, this book goes on to profile leading and influential activists and organizations, such as the NAACP, movement co-founder Alicia Garza, and civil rights activist and athlete Colin Kaepernick.

Readers will gain an understanding of important organizational priorities, as well as criticisms of and controversies surrounding the group. A broad range of personal essays explore the persistent problems of police violence and racial discrimination in America. Governmental data and excerpts of primary documents are also included, and an annotated bibliography of related books, news articles, reports, podcasts and more supports readers in conducting further research into BLM, police violence, and racism in American society.

Cuprins

Preface

1. Background and History
The Question of Black Humanity
-Transatlantic Slave Trade and US Chattel Slavery (1619-1865)
-Jim Crow Era of Legalized Segregation (1877-1964)
-Post-Civil Rights Color-Blind Era (1965-Present)
Black Liberation Movements throughout American History
-Slavery Abolition Movement (1619-1865)
-Early Civil Rights Organizing (1887-1910)
-NAACP, Legal Battles, and Civil Rights (1910-1954)
-Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968)
-Black Power Movement (1966-1989)
-Black Lives Matter Movement (2013- )
Contentious Community-Police Relations
-Pre-Institutionalized Policing: Slave Catching and Lynching
-Institutionalized Policing and Racial Disparities
-Contemporary Abolition and Community Oversight Initiatives
-Policing Blackness in the Contemporary Moment
Framing the Politics of BLM
-Institutionalized Racism versus Individual Bad Behavior
-Respectability Politics versus Unapologetically Black Politics
-Intersectionality and Standpoint Theory
The Role of Religion in Black Resistance
Conclusion
Bibliography

2. Problems, Controversies, and Solutions
BLM's Organizational Structure
-Black Lives Matter versus the Movement 4 Black Lives
-Centralized versus Decentralized Leadership
Do All Black Lives Matter? BLM's Intersectional Politics and Affiliate Movements
-#SayHerName
-#AllBlackLivesMatter
-The Global Reach of BLM
BLM's Ideological and Rhetorical Controversies
-#BlackLivesMatter versus #AllLivesMatter
-#BlueLivesMatter and #ThinBlueLine
-The American "Culture Wars"
Digital Movement Equals Digital Controversies
-Misinformation and Disinformation in the Digital Era
-Citizen Journalism and the News Media Problematic
-The Activism versus Slacktivism Debate
-BLM in Media and Popular Culture
-Desensitization and the Spectacle of Black Death
"Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired": The Issue of Activist Burnout
-Causes of Activist Burnout
-Symptoms and Implications
-Potential Solutions
From Corporate to Community: The Political Economy of BLM
-Corporate Engagement with Black Lives Matter
-BLM's Impact at the Community Level
-BLM's Financial Controversies
Legal Changes and Policy Implications
-Institutional Shifts
-Cultural Trends
-Policy Outcomes
-The Criminal Justice Problem
Conclusion
Bibliography

3. Perspectives
Whose Lives? Our Lives! Black Trans Lives Matter, Brayland Brown
A Response to Many Violences: Reframing the Call to #SayHerName, Melissa Brown
Social Roots: The Birth and Rise of Black Lives Matter, Jonathan M. Cox
Struggling to Catch My Breath: The Day-to-Day Experience of a Scholar Activist, Shaneda Destine
Navigating State Surveillance as a Black Woman, April Goggans
At the Forefront: My Journey as a Youth Activist, Armonee D. Jackson
Global Movement, Local Dynamics: How the BLM Movement Has Influenced Protests around the World, Saman Ayesha Kidwai and Daniel Odin Shaw
Opaque Movements and Captured Leadership, Dana Francisco Miranda
When Black Disabled Lives Matter, Every Body and Mind Has Access to Freedom Dreams, Justine "Justice" Shorter
"There Is No Capitalism without Racism": Racial Capitalism and the BLM Movement, Saadia Toor and Ali Mir

4. Profiles
Individuals
-Jennifer E. Cobbina
-Ben Lloyd Crump (1969- )
-Sybrina Fulton (1968- )
-Alicia Garza (1981- )
-Imara Jones (1972- )
-Colin Kaepernick (1987- )
-Patrisse Khan-Cullors (1984- )
-Barbara Ransby (1957- )
-Kendrick Sampson (1988- )
-Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (1972- )
-Ayo (Opal) Tometi (1984- )
Organizations
-African American Policy Forum
-Black Alliance for Just Immigration
-Black to the Future Action Fund
-Black Youth Project 100
-Campaign Zero
-Color of Change
-Data for Black Lives
-#8toAbolition
-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

5. Documents
"Justice Department Announces Findings of Two Civil Rights Investigations in Ferguson, Missouri," Department of Justice Press Release (2015)
"Statement of Vanita Gupta, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights," US Senate Committee of the Judiciary Oversight Hearing on Police Use of Force and Community Relations (2020)
Jada Steuart, "Black Lives Matter Protests in Trinidad & Tobago Spark Discussions about Race" (2020)
Keisha N. Blain, "A Short History of Black Women and Police Violence" (2020)
Kwasi Konadu and Bright Gyamfi, "Black Lives Matter: How Far Has the Movement Come?" (2021)
"Remarks by President Biden at Signing of H.R. 55, the Emmett Till Antilynching Act" (2022)

6. Resources
Books
Academic Articles and Reports
News Articles
Documentaries
Podcasts and Videos

7. Chronology

Glossary
Index

Recenzii

This information is presented through a combination of accessible chapter-length essays and easy-to-access lists. Necessarily selective, the editors have made noticeable efforts to present balanced perspectives. This makes a worthy addition for collections supporting researchers in secondary through graduate and professional levels.