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From #blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

2 reviews

junefish's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Murder, and Gun violence

Moderate: Police brutality, Slavery, Sexual violence, Racial slurs, Islamophobia, and Xenophobia

Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Colonisation, Drug use, Genocide, Grief, and Religious bigotry

tesslaah's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

5.0

There's so much to love about this book. My copy has sentences & paragraphs underlined on almost every page--I'm sure your copy will too. At the most basic level, this book is about Black Liberation. In particular, where the United States fails at this and how we can create a new way to get us to this liberation. On page 194, Taylor says "Perhaps at its most basic level, Black liberation implies a world where Black people can live in peace, without the constant threat of the social, economic, and political woes of a society that places almost no value on the vast majority of Black lives... In that sense, Black liberation is bound up with the project of human liberation and social transformation." Taylor uses endless evidence and explanation that all point to this idea. What is Black liberation? How do we know when we've gotten there? When Black lives matter. 
This book is beautifully written, dives deep below surface level, and pushes back against common "post-racial" society tropes all while inspiring the reader to imagine a better world. Taylor makes me believe this better world is possible, but it requires a lot of work.

"Can there be Black liberation in the United States as the country is currently constituted? No." (page 216) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, and Police brutality