After life : a collective history of loss and redemption in pandemic America / edited by Rhae Lynn Barnes, Keri Leigh Merritt, Yohuru Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barnes, Rhae Lynn, editor.

Merritt, Keri Leigh, 1980- editor.

Williams, Yohuru, 1971- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

COVID-19 (Disease)--Social aspects--United States.

COVID-19 (Disease).

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Social aspects--United States.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

COVID-19.

COVID-19 (Disease)--Social aspects.

United States--History--21st century.

United States.

Medical Subjects:

COVID-19.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 387 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Collective history of loss and redemption in pandemic America

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2022.

Summary:

"After Life is a collective history of how Americans experienced, navigated, commemorated, and ignored mass death and loss during the global COVID-19 pandemic, mass uprisings for racial justice, and the attempted coup following the 2020 election. Inspired by the writers who documented American life during the Great Depression and World War II for the Works Progress Administration, the editors asked twenty-first-century historians to focus on the parallels, convergences, and differences between the exceptional "long 2020", and earlier eras in U.S. history." -- Publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM: COLONIZATION AND IMMIGRATION

1. El Paso in Mourning / Monica Muhoz Martinez

2. 2020: A Year for Epic Victories amid Historic Loss / Mary Kathryn Nagle

3. Guitars, Dreams, Dogs, and Tears: Grieving Hard Histories / Philip J. Deloria

4. Somewhere, USA / Robert L. Tsai

pt. II MASS DEATH AND WHITE SUPREMACY: THE CIVIL WAR AND CIVIL RIGHTS

5. Confederates Take the Capitol / Stephen Berry

6. Two Catastrophes and Ten Parallels: Lincoln's Assassination and COVID-19 / Martha Hodes

7. COVID-19: A New "Negro Servants' Disease" / Tera W. Hunter

8. From the Colfax Massacre to the 2020 Election: White Supremacist Terrorism in America / Gwendolyn Midlo-Hall

9. Man of Means by No Means: King of the Road / Rhae Lynn Barnes

10. The Afterlife of Black Political Radicalism / Peniel E. Joseph

pt. III FINDING LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS: MEMORY AND GRIEF

11. The Grief That Came before the Grief: A Home Archive / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

12. An Uncountable Casualty: Ruminations on the Social Life of Numbers / Mary L. Dudziak

13. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child / Keith Ellison

14. Losing My Starbucks Table / Via Y. Taylor

pt. IV THE RECKONING

15. Buried History: The Death and Life of Donald S. Kelley / Robin D. G. Kelley

16. Suicide and Survival: Deaths of Despair in the 2020s / Keri Leigh Merritt

17. "How Do We Live?": A Journal of a Lost Year / Scott Paulson-Bryant

18. The Permeability of Cells: Vulnerability and Trauma in the Age of Mass Incarceration / Heather Ann Thompson

19. Dreams of My Great-Grandfather / Yohuru Williams.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-365) and index.

ISBN:

9781642598759

1642598755

9781642598292

1642598291

OCLC:

1346521954

Publisher Number:

99992336410