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Author Murch, Donna Jean, author.

Title Assata taught me : state violence, racial capitalism, and the movement for Black lives / Donna Murch.

Publication Info. Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2022.

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  303.48 MUR    Check Shelf
Description 201 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- BLACK POWER AND BLACK RADICALISM -- 1: The Campus and the Street: Race, Migration, and the Origins of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California -- 2: Black Liberation and 1968 -- STATE VIOLENCE AND THE WAR(S) ON CRIME -- 3: Who's to Blame for Mass Incarceration? -- 4: Crack in Los Angeles: Black Response to the Late Twentieth-Century War on Drugs -- 5: The Clintons' War on Drugs: When Black Lives Didn't Matter -- RACIAL CAPITALISM AND BLACK LIVES -- 6: Ferguson's Inheritance -- 7: Paying for Punishment -- 8: How Race Made the Opioid Crisis -- 9: The Movement for Black Lives: A Retrospective Look from 2021.
Summary Incisive analysis of the history and politics of Black liberation struggle by radical scholar Donna Murch.
"Black Panther and Cuban exile, Assata Shakur, has inspired multiple generations of radical protest, including our contemporary Black Lives Matter movement. Drawing its title from one of America's foremost revolutionaries, this collection of thought-provoking essays by award-winning Panther scholar Donna Murch explores how social protest is challenging our current system of state violence and mass incarceration. Murch exposes the devastating consequences of overlapping punishment campaigns against gangs, drugs, and crime on poor and working-class populations of color. Through largely hidden channels, it is these punishment campaigns, Murch says, that generate enormous revenues for the state. Under such difficult conditions, organized resistance to the advancing tide of state violence and incarceration has proved difficult. This timely and urgent book shows how a youth-led political movement has emerged since the killing of Trayvon Martin that challenges the bi-partisan consensus on punishment and looks to the future through a redistributive, queer, and feminist lens. Murch frames the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement in relation to earlier struggles for Black Liberation, while excavating the origins of mass incarceration and the political economy that drives it."-- Publisher's description.
Subject Protest movements -- United States -- History.
African Americans -- Politics and government.
Political violence -- United States -- History.
African Americans -- Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst00799659
Political violence. (OCoLC)fst01069902
Protest movements. (OCoLC)fst01079826
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Essays.
ISBN 1642595160
9781642595161
9781642595185 (hbk.)
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