Black Papers

• Utgivningsdatum: 2026-11-13
• Mått: 156 x 234 x undefined mm
• Vikt: 1 640 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: Sociology Re-Wired
• Antal sidor: 858
• Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• ISBN: 9781041270904

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David J. Johns is an education policy expert and advocate for Black and LGBTQ+/SGL youth. Former Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans, he now leads the National Black Justice Collective, a civil rights organization, advancing equity through research, advocacy, and intersectional leadership. He earned BA, MA, and PhD degrees from Columbia University.

“The Black Papers are an essential guide to renewing the spirit of resistance, survival, and power-building that have brought us thus far on our way. It is the work of a new generation of Black thinkers, workers, and warriors.”Joy-Ann (Joy) Reid, Host of The Joy Reid Show“The NAACP has always known resistance alone is not enough. In this moment, resistance must be reimagined—not just as opposition to injustice, but as the construction of justice itself. The Black Papers embody that shift. Across 26 chapters, it delivers legislative frameworks, budget blueprints, and organizing strategies that move us from protest to policy—and from resistance to liberation.”Derrick Johnson, President and CEO, NAACP“Intersectionality is a lens through which you can see where power collides and interlocks. The Black Papers extends that lens to every dimension of Black life: democracy, education, health, justice, and economics. But the chapters don’t just diagnose structural racism; they map comprehensive pathways to dismantle it. This volume shows what happens when scholars, organizers and policymakers refuse to accept single-axis solutions, and it is essential for anyone serious about liberation.”Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw, Executive Director, African American Policy Forum; Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia; Distinguished Professor and Promise Institute Chair on Human Rights, UCLA“After George Floyd and Breonna Taylor were murdered, I said we're in a state of emergency. My book State of Emergency explained how we got here. The Black Papers map how we get free, 26 chapters of actionable policy across democracy, justice, health, education, and economic empowerment. This is the comprehensive roadmap for the transformation we're demanding.”Tamika D. Mallory, Co-Founder, Until Freedom; Youngest Executive Director, National Action Network; Author, State of Emergency and I Lived to Tell the Story“In a political moment when Black communities need more than hashtags and hot takes, The Black Papers delivers what we've been missing: comprehensive policy frameworks rooted in our lived experiences and ready for implementation. From democracy to education to justice, this volume doesn't just diagnose our crises—it hands us the blueprints for building something better. This is the policy handbook the movement needs—and our people built it from the ground up.”Brittany Packnett Cunningham, Activist, Educator, Host of UNDISTRACTED“2025 brought an insurmountable surge of attacks on LGBTQ people—from the tireless recycling of anti-LGBTQ and especially anti-trans legislation, to social media companies retreating from trust & safety to appease right-wing activists. As our movement pushes for visibility and accountability across the media landscape on the daily, we also need comprehensive policy infrastructure. The Black Papers provide exactly that—rigorous frameworks that don't compromise on what liberation requires. From voting rights to media justice to LGBTQ+ policy, this volume meets the moment.”Sarah Kate Ellis, President of GLAAD“For 50 years, the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation has built intergenerational civic engagement infrastructure in Black communities. For 30 years, I've led that work. The Black Papers provides the policy infrastructure our civic power demands—comprehensive frameworks across voting rights, economic justice, health equity, education, and more. Black Women's Roundtable's priorities are centered throughout. This is a timely policy roadmap that meets the moment that calls for vision and transformational change.”Melanie L. Campbell, President & CEO, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation; Convener, Black Women’s Roundtable; Founder, NCBCP Thomas W. Dortch Jr. Institute, anchored at Clark Atlanta University“The Task Force's tagline is 'Be You'—but being yourself requires policy protection. The Black Papers, Volume I provides a blueprint to that protection across LGBTQ+ rights, reproductive justice, voting rights, healthcare, and economic security. The last 25 years of my career have proven to me that in addition to building resilience and agile organizing, we need comprehensive policy infrastructure that doesn't ask us to choose which identity to fight for.”Kierra Johnson, President, task force, 2025 OUT 100 honoree, pansexual Black woman, Southern Queer Mom of three“As a child of immigrants, a Black man, and a gay man, I know firsthand that intersectional organizing isn’t optional - it’s essential. The Black Papers offers the comprehensive policy framework we need to protect, expand, and sustain our communities. From voting rights to immigration to health justice to LGBTQ+ liberation, this volume centers the realities our movement lives every day. Proud to stand with this work.”Kenya Hutton, MPH, President & CEO, Center for Black Equity“The Black Papers offers a timely contribution to the contemporary policy implications impacting the lives of Black Americans (and other Americans more broadly). As a collection of essays and policy proposals from leading and emerging scholars who are aiming to impact policymakers, the book will be a stand-out in the policy agenda arena. Unlike any other text, the nature of the policy agenda’s creation alongside policymakers, academics, and community organizers together make the contribution of this book emblematic not only as a model of policy but also as method.”Terrell Winder, author of Shameless: The Making of Black Gay Identities in LA“This book offers a rigorous, critical, timely, and useful tool to readers seeking to turn research into actionable outcomes with specific and concrete policy recommendations, which really is the strength of the volume, and why it makes an important contribution at this present moment in US history.”Jason Sexton, Lecturer in Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

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