Overview

The 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.

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Author:   Joyce A. Joyce ,  Élan R. Alford ,  Melba Joyce Boyd ,  Yvonne Fulmore
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.526kg
ISBN:  

9781666936506

ISBN 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  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 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 Rodriguez

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Joyce 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

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Joyce A. Joyce is professor in the English Department at Temple University.

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