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Nobody : casualties of America's war on the vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and beyond / Marc Lamont Hill.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hill, Marc Lamont, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social conflict--United States.
- Social conflict.
- Race relations.
- Police shootings.
- United States.
- Social classes--United States.
- Social classes.
- Discrimination--United States.
- Discrimination.
- African Americans--Violence against.
- African Americans.
- Police shootings--United States.
- United States--Race relations--21st century.
- United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 250 pages)
- Edition:
- First Atria Books hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Atria Books, 2016.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2016]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In this "thought-provoking and important" (Library Journal) analysis of state-sanctioned violence, Marc Lamont Hill carefully considers a string of high-profile deaths in America-of Sandra Bland, Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, and others-and incidents of gross negligence by government, such as the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. He digs beneath these events to uncover patterns and policies of state authority that allow some citizens to become disempowered, disenfranchised, poor, uneducated, exploited, vulnerable, and disposable. To help us understand the plight of vulnerable communities, he examines the effects of unfettered capitalism, mass incarceration, and political power while urging us to consider a new world in which everyone has a chance to become somebody. Heralded as an essential text for our times, Marc Lamont Hill's galvanizing work embodies the best traditions of scholarship, journalism, and storytelling to lift unheard voices and to address the necessary question, "How did we get here?" Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Nobody
- Broken
- Bargained
- Armed
- Caged
- Emergency
- Somebody.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 10, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Hill, Marc Lamont. Nobody.
- ISBN:
- 9781501124976
- 1501124978
- Publisher Number:
- 99984942709
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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