Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
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A New York Times Editor's Choice
Nautilus Award Winner
"A worthy and necessary addition to the contemporary canon of civil rights literature." —The New York Times
From one of the leading voices on civil rights in America, a thoughtful and urgent analysis of recent headline-making police brutality cases and the systems and policies that enabled them.
In this "thought-provoking and important" (Library Journal) analysis of state-sanctioned violence, Marc Lamont Hill carefully considers a string of high-profile deaths in America—Sandra Bland, Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, and others—and incidents of gross negligence by government, such as the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. He digs underneath these events to uncover patterns and policies of authority that allow some citizens become disempowered, disenfranchised, poor, uneducated, exploited, vulnerable, and disposable. To help us understand the plight of vulnerable communities, he examines the effects of unfettered capitalism, mass incarceration, and political power while urging us to consider a new world in which everyone has a chance to become somebody. Heralded as an essential text for our times, Marc Lamont Hill's galvanizing work embodies the best traditions of scholarship, journalism, and storytelling to lift unheard voices and to address the necessary question, "how did we get here?"
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Marc Lamont Hill. (2016). Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond. Atria Books.
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MLA Citation (style guide)Marc Lamont Hill. Nobody: Casualties of America's War On the Vulnerable, From Ferguson to Flint and Beyond. Atria Books, 2016.
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"A worthy and necessary addition to the contemporary canon of civil rights literature." —The New York Times
From one of the leading voices on civil rights in America, a thoughtful and urgent analysis of recent headline-making police brutality cases and the systems and policies that enabled them.
In this "thought-provoking and important" (Library Journal) analysis of state-sanctioned violence, Marc Lamont Hill carefully considers a string of high-profile deaths in America—Sandra Bland, Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, and others—and incidents of gross negligence by government, such as the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. He digs underneath these events to uncover patterns and policies of authority that allow some citizens become... - isOwnedByCollections
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Nautilus Award Winner
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From one of the leading voices on civil rights in America, a thoughtful and urgent analysis of recent headline-making police brutality cases and the systems and policies that enabled them.
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Hill, a journalist and a professor of African-American studies at Morehouse College, places recent incidents of police violence against African-Americans in their historical and geographical contexts. The outrage over constant tragedy gathers momentum as what might once have been local matters become highly publicized events. Places such as Ferguson, Mo., Sanford, Fla., and Hempstead, Tex., and victims such as Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, and Kathryn Johnston, have become familiar nationwide through media exposure. Hill critiques the intended and unintended consequences of various policies: the expanding discretionary power, performance requirements, and militarization of the police; mass incarceration, often the consequence of mandatory minimum sentences or indeterminate sentencing leading to the wide use of plea bargaining; the disproportionate imposition of public-nuisance laws, and "broken windows" and stop-and-frisk policies, on African-Americans; and the outgrowth of state-sponsored exploitation of African-Americans for economic gain, evidenced by privatized prisons, the bail bond business, the use of fines in funding local police department budgets, and housing practices that created ghettos of poverty. Hill's work is valuable in rendering individual lives with empathy but without sanctification as he assesses the historical, sociological, and statistical milieu of these casualties in a lucid, highly readable book.
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Hill (The Classroom and the Cell) uses recent high-profile, violent incidents against marginalized persons to highlight societal problems. The victims, or "Nobodies," are considered by society to be disposable, but their oppression can be contextualized as part of a larger story of politics, economics, and power. Hill links the 2014 murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, to the history of housing and segregation in St. Louis, as well as the 2012 killings of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin in relation to Florida's Stand Your Ground law. The criminal justice system is extensively explored, and Hill argues that practices such as plea bargains, settlements, and mandatory minimums are detrimental to crime victims. Also analyzed is the state of policing, along with the U.S. prison system and the Flint, MI, water crisis. Accounts of racial violence victims Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, and Freddie Gray are used as case studies. This analysis closes on a hopeful note by detailing activist movements which strive to counteract the forces that turn the vulnerable into Nobodies. VERDICT A thought-provoking and important analysis of oppression, recommended for those seeking clarity on current events.--Rebekah Kati, Durham, NC
Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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