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Black life matter : blackness, religion, and the subject
- Title
- Black life matter : blackness, religion, and the subject / Biko Mandela Gray.
- Author
- Gray, Biko Mandela
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
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- Description
- xi, 164 pages; 23 cm
- 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"--
- Subject
- Racism > United States
- Racism > United States > Philosophy
- Black lives matter movement
- Racism in law enforcement > United States
- Racism against Black people > United States
- Police murders > United States
- Murder victims > United States
- Police brutality > United States
- African Americans > Social conditions
- Murder victims
- Police brutality
- Police murders
- Race relations
- Racism
- Racism against Black people
- Racism in law enforcement
- Racism > Philosophy
- African Americans
- United States > Race relations > History
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-158) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: 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 -- Conclusion: Black Life Matter.
- Call Number
- Sc E 23-349
- ISBN
- 9781478013907
- 1478013907
- 9781478014843
- 1478014849
- 9781478022114 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022003205
- OCLC
- 1315573914
- Author
- Gray, Biko Mandela, author.
- Title
- Black life matter : blackness, religion, and the subject / Biko Mandela Gray.
- Publisher
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-158) and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 23-349