The Ferguson report : an erasure / Nicole Sealey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sealey, Nicole, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Department of Justice. Civil Rights Division. Ferguson report--Poetry.

United States.

Brown, Michael, Jr., 1996-2014--Poetry.

Brown, Michael.

Brown, Michael, Jr., 1996-2014.

Police shootings--Missouri--Ferguson--Poetry.

Police shootings.

African Americans--Violence against--Poetry.

African Americans.

United States--Race relations--Poetry.

African Americans--Violence against.

Race relations.

Missouri--Ferguson.

Genre:

Erasure poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

x, 116 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.

Summary:

"In August, 2014, Michael Brown--a young, unarmed Black man--was shot to death by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. What followed was a period of protests and turmoil, culminating in an extensive report that was filed by the Department of Justice detailing biased policing and court practices in the city. It is a document that exposes the racist policies and practices that have become commonplace--from disproportionate arrest rates, to flagrant violence directed at the Black community. It is a report that remains as disheartening as it is damning. Now, acclaimed poet Nicole Sealey revisits the investigation in a book that redacts the report, an act of erasure that reimagines the original text as it strips it away. While the full document is visible in the background--weighing heavily on the language Sealey has preserved--it gives shape and disturbing context to what remains. Illuminating what it means to live in this frightening age and what it means to bear witness, The Ferguson Report: An Erasure is an engrossing meditation on one of the most important texts of modern time"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso.

ISBN:

9780593535998

0593535995

OCLC:

1354648640