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The Ferguson report : an erasure
- Title
- The Ferguson report : an erasure / Nicole Sealey.
- Author
- Sealey, Nicole
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
- 2023
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- Description
- x, 116 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In August, 2014, Michael Brown--a young, unarmed Black man--was shot to death by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. What followed was a period of protests and turmoil, culminating in an extensive report that was filed by the Department of Justice detailing biased policing and court practices in the city. It is a document that exposes the racist policies and practices that have become commonplace--from disproportionate arrest rates, to flagrant violence directed at the Black community. It is a report that remains as disheartening as it is damning. Now, acclaimed poet Nicole Sealey revisits the investigation in a book that redacts the report, an act of erasure that reimagines the original text as it strips it away. While the full document is visible in the background--weighing heavily on the language Sealey has preserved--it gives shape and disturbing context to what remains. Illuminating what it means to live in this frightening age and what it means to bear witness, The Ferguson Report: An Erasure is an engrossing meditation on one of the most important texts of modern time"--
- Subject
- Brown, Michael, Jr., 1996-2014 > Poetry
- Brown, Michael, Jr., 1996-2014
- United States. Department of Justice. Civil Rights Division. > Poetry
- United States. Department of Justice. Civil Rights Division
- United States. Department of Justice
- Police shootings > Missouri > Ferguson > Poetry
- African Americans > Violence against > Poetry
- African Americans > Violence against
- Police shootings
- Race relations
- African Americans
- United States > Race relations > Poetry
- Missouri > Ferguson
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Erasure poetry.
- Poetry.
- Note
- "This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso.
- Call Number
- Sc E 24-95
- ISBN
- 9780593535998
- 0593535995
- LCCN
- 2022054046
- OCLC
- 1354648640
- Author
- Sealey, Nicole, author.
- Title
- The Ferguson report : an erasure / Nicole Sealey.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- 2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 24-95