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Black life matter : blackness, religion, and the subject / Biko Mandela Gray.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gray, Biko Mandela, author.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racism--United States.
- Racism.
- Racism--United States--Philosophy.
- Black lives matter movement.
- Racism in law enforcement--United States.
- Racism in law enforcement.
- Racism against Black people--United States.
- Racism against Black people.
- Police murders--United States.
- Police murders.
- Murder victims--United States.
- Murder victims.
- Police brutality--United States.
- Police brutality.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- African Americans.
- United States--Race relations--History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 164 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
- System Details:
- Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
- data file
- Summary:
- "In Black Life Matter, Biko Mandela Gray offers a philosophical eulogy for Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Tamir Rice, Alton Sterling, and Sandra Bland that attests to their irreducible significance in the face of unremitting police brutality. Gray employs a theoretical method he calls "sitting with"-a philosophical practice of care that seeks to defend the dead and the living. He shows that the police that killed Stanley-Jones and Rice reduced them to their bodies in ways that turn black lives into tools that the state uses to justify its violence and existence. He outlines how Bland's arrest and death reveal the affective resonances of blackness, and he contends that Sterling's physical movement and speech before he was killed point to black flesh as unruly living matter that exceeds the constraints of the black body. These four black lives, Gray demonstrates, were more than the brutal violence enacted against them; they speak to a mode of life that cannot be fully captured by the brutal logics of antiblackness."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Four Black Lives
- Hands and Braids: Black Bodies as Mere Corporeal Matter
- "What I Do?": Black Flesh as Living Matter
- "I Am Irritated, I Really Am": Blackness as Affective Matter
- Black Life Matter.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Gray, Biko Mandela. Black life matter.
- ISBN:
- 9781478022114
- 1478022116
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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