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This is not for you : an activist's journey of resistance and resilience / Richard Brown, with Brian Benson.
LIBRA F884.P853 B76 2021
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Richard J., 1939- author.
- Benson, Brian, 1982- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Air Force.
- African American political activists--Oregon--Portland--Biography.
- African American political activists.
- Political activists--Oregon--Portland--Biography.
- Political activists.
- Airmen.
- African Americans.
- Community policing.
- History.
- Police-community relations.
- African American photographers.
- Photographers.
- Oregon--Portland.
- Photographers--Oregon--Portland--Biography.
- African American photographers--Oregon--Portland--Biography.
- Police-community relations--Oregon--Portland--History--21st century.
- Community policing--Oregon--Portland--History.
- Armed Forces--African Americans.
- Armed Forces--Airmen.
- Brown, Richard J., 1939-.
- Brown, Richard J.
- United States. Air Force--African Americans--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Air Force--Airmen--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "This is Not For You: An Activist's Journey of Resistance and Resilience is the memoir of activist and photographer Richard Brown, an eighty-year-old Black Portlander who has worked to bridge the divide between police and the Black community.Originally from Harlem, Brown served in the Air Force for twenty years before landing in Portland. As he recalls his childhood in the 1940s, his radicalization in the newly desegregated Air Force, and his decades of activism in one of America's whitest cities, he questions whether he's got the strength to continue doing this work, and he wonders who, if anyone, will take his place"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Excuse Yourself
- ch. 1 A Boy In A Room
- ch. 2 What I Saw When I Looked
- ch. 3 So Far From Home
- The Academy
- pt. II The Sort of Place You'd Pull Last if You Could
- ch. 4 Another Planet
- ch. 5 Survival Skills
- ch. 6 The Ghost Of A Stripe
- ch. 7 Paper Cup
- ch. 8 A Real Person
- ch. 9 Outcomes
- The Club
- pt. III No Destination but the Drive
- ch. 10 Light Casualties
- ch. 11 Black Skin And Wire-Rimmed Glasses
- ch. 12 Speed And Other Limits
- ch. 13 Twenty Years
- The Street
- pt. IV Picture Takin' Man
- ch. 14 Like A Little Bird
- ch. 15 Human Interest
- ch. 16 Sidebar
- The Precinct
- pt. V Black Man in a White Room
- ch. 17 Etiquette
- ch. 18 The Center Of Every Story
- ch. 19 Just About Everything
- The Basement
- pt. VI Eighteen Inches
- ch. 20 Into The Blue Cocoon
- ch. 21 Hope And Hard Work
- ch. 22 Block After Block
- ch. 23 Tug Of War
- ch. 24 One Last Thursday
- The Presentation.
- ISBN:
- 9780870713026
- 0870713027
- OCLC:
- 1203958624
- Publisher Number:
- 99986766530
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