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OverviewThe Social Protests of 2020: Visceral Responses to Police Brutality, COVID-19, and Circumscribed Sexuality collects voices from various Black intellectuals – university professors, a scientist, media communication specialist, poets, a visual artist, and political activists – to illustrate how the simultaneity of high-profile political events in the summer of 2020 manifest in our consciousness at one time. Reflecting the contributors’ honest visceral responses, the essays reveal the anguish, sadness, and motivation to act that each of them experienced in light of police brutality, COVID-19, and the Supreme Court's handling of employment discrimination against LGBTQIA+ communities. These voices address, in carefully reflected and theoretically formed ways, those universal feelings that level all human beings, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexuality, economic status, and education. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Joyce A. Joyce , Élan R. Alford , Melba Joyce Boyd , Yvonne FulmorePublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.80cm Weight: 0.526kg ISBN: 9781666936506ISBN 10: 1666936502 Pages: 260 Publication Date: 05 June 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsChapter I: The Space Between Grief and Gratitude: A Letter to My Beloved Friends” Ana-Maurine Lara Chapter II: “Moving to the Left: Black Response to Structural Violence” Wende Marshall Chapter III: “People Who Have Done Bad Things: Why the Idea of Police Has Failed” Melba Joyce Boyd Chapter IV: “Sanctioned Murders: An Epidemic Disease” Joyce A. Joyce Chapter V: “No Love: ‘Tennis’ in the Era of Pills, Exceptionalism, and Black Lives Matter” Gregory E. Rutledge, Chapter VI: “Better Late than Never” Donna Marie Peters Chapter VII: “The Brotherhood Gone Viral: Reading Invisible Man on #blackouttuesday” Margarita M. Castromán Soto Chapter VIII: “To Protect and Serve: Medieval Knights, the Police, and Sexual Violence” Carissa M. Harris Chapter IX: Fieldwork, Flowers, and the Force: A Perspective on Gender Expression, Profession, Race, and Policing” Élan R. Alford Chapter X: “The Toll of Devaluing Black People’s Humanity Is to Live in a Nation that Will Feel Like Home to No One” Yvonne Fulmore Chapter XI: “Apocalypse Rot” Ewuare Osayande Chapter XII: “For B.R.E.A.T.H.E” and “. . . To you” Everett Hoagland Chapter XIII: “The New Rent Party Or, in the Words of Sonia Sanchez, ‘How Does One Scream in Thunder?’ Asking for a Friend.” Quincy Scott Jones Chapter XIV: “opus 132 free” Yolanda Wisher Chapter XV: “Worldstar’s Poetica” Edythe RodriguezReviewsJoyce A. Joyce's edited volume of essays, The Social Protests of 2020: Visceral Responses to Police Brutality, COVID-19, and Circumscribed Sexuality is an assemblage of visceral, raw, and recognizable reflections on what bearing witness to the global civil unrest sparked by the killing of George Floyd meant for BIPOC scholars, artists, and activists. At the same time, the anthology of beautifully crafted essays interrogates and indicts racism and white supremacy as fulcrum for maintaining an American status quo that upholds violence against the full spectrum of Black bodies. Joyce and the other contributors don't stop there, however; their essays are evidence that courageous vulnerability and self-reflection are part and parcel of the longue duree of Black liberation struggles and critical to individual and collective healing wrought by PTSD (Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder), state-sanctioned violence against Black men, women, and LBGTQ people, and COVID-19 pandemic. Collectively, their experiences, memories, musings, and words point the way we must go if we want to get free.--Patricia Williams Lessane, Morgan State University Author InformationJoyce A. Joyce is professor in the English Department at Temple University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |