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Author Dyson, Michael Eric, author.

Title Long time coming : reckoning with race in America / Michael Eric Dyson.

Publisher New York : St. Martin's Press, 2020.
2020

Copies

ITEM LOC CALL # STATUS
 Boulder Junction adult nonfiction  305.8 DYS    AVAILABLE
 Hayward adult and young adult nonfiction  305.8 DYS    AVAILABLE
 Lac Courte Oreilles adult nonfiction  305.8 DYS    AVAILABLE
 Mellen adult nonfiction  305.8 DYS    AVAILABLE
 Superior adult nonfiction  305.8 D995L    AVAILABLE
Edition First edition.
Descript 230 pages ; 20 cm
Note Nonfiction.
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-230).
Summary "From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop, a passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and start the journey to redemption. The night of May 25, 2020 changed America. George Floyd, a 43-year-old Black man, was killedduring an arrest in Minneapolis when a white cop suffocated him. The video of that night's events went viral, sparking the largest protests in the nation's history and the sort of social unrest we have not seen since the sixties. While Floyd's death wascertainly the catalyst, (heightened by the fact that it occurred during a pandemic whose victims were disproportionately of color) it was in truth the fuse that lit an ever-filling powder keg. Long Time Coming grapples with the cultural and social forcesthat have shaped our nation in the brutal crucible of race. In five beautifully argued chapters-each addressed to a black martyr from Breonna Taylor to Rev. Clementa Pinckney-Dyson traces the genealogy of anti-blackness from the slave ship to the street corner where Floyd lost his life-and where America gained its will to confront the ugly truth of systemic racism. Ending with a poignant plea for hope, Dyson's exciting new book points the way to social redemption. Long Time Coming is a necessary guide tohelp America finally reckon with race"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject United States -- Race relations.
Racism -- United States.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
Black lives matter movement.
Racial profiling in law enforcement -- United States.
Minority groups.
Black people.
BIPOC.
Minorities.
ISBN/ISSN 9781250276759 hardcover
1250276756 hardcover