Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Essential Kerner Commission Report

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The Kerner Commission Report, released a month before Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 assassination, is among a handful of government reports that reads like an illuminating history book—a dramatic, often shocking, exploration of systemic racism that transcends its time. Yet Columbia University professor and New Yorker correspondent Jelani Cobb argues that this prescient report, which examined more than a dozen urban uprisings between 1964 and 1967, has been woefully neglected.In an enlightening new introduction, Cobb reveals how these uprisings were used as political fodder by Republicans and demonstrates that this condensed edition of the Report should be essential reading at a moment when protest movements are challenging us to uproot racial injustice. A detailed examination of economic inequality, race, and policing, the Report has never been more relevant, and demonstrates to devastating effect that it is possible for us to be entirely cognizant of history and still tragically repeat it.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2021-07-27
Mått: 140 x 211 x 20 mm
Vikt: 255 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 320
Förlag: W W Norton & Co Ltd
ISBN: 9781631498923

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A staff writer at The New Yorker, Jelani Cobb was a former student of Stanley Crouch. Matthew Guariglia is a historian and senior policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is the author of Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia. A staff writer at The New Yorker, Jelani Cobb was a former student of Stanley Crouch.

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"This version of the landmark report features a superb introduction by Cobb and a closing section of frequently asked questions—e.g., ‘How come nothing has been done about these problems?’ The book contains plenty of fodder for crucial national conversations and many excellent ideas for much-needed reforms that could be put into place now. A welcome new version of a publication that is no less important now than it was in 1967."

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