NobodyNobody
Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, From Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
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Book, 2016
Current format, Book, 2016, 1st Atria Books hardcover edition, Available .Book, 2016
Current format, Book, 2016, 1st Atria Books hardcover edition, Available . Offered in 0 more formats"Journalist Marc Lamont Hill offers a powerful, paradigm-shifting analysis of America's current state of emergency, finding in these events a larger and more troubling truth about race, class, and what it means to be "Nobody." Protests in Ferguson, Missouri and across the United States following the death of Michael Brown revealed something far deeper than a passionate display of age-old racial frustrations. They unveiled a public chasm that has been growing for years, as America has consistently and intentionally denied significant segments of its population access to full freedom and prosperity. A thought-provoking analysis of race and class, examining a growing crisis in America: the existence of a group of citizens who are made vulnerable, exploitable and disposable through the machinery of unregulated capitalism, public policy, and social practice. Hill shows how this Nobody class has emerged over time and how forces in America have worked to preserve and exploit it in ways that are both humiliating and harmful. Hill reconsiders the details of tragic events like the deaths of Michael Brown, Sandra Bland, and Freddie Gray, and the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. He delves deeply into a host of alarming trends including mass incarceration, overly aggressive policing, broken court systems, shrinking job markets, and the privatization of public resources, showing time and time again the ways the current system is designed to worsen the plight of the vulnerable. The challenges and contradictions of American democracy, for anyone wanting to better understand the race and class issues that continue to leave their mark on our country today. Marc Lamont Hill is an award-winning journalist and host of Black Entertainment Television (BET) News. He is a professor of African American Studies at Morehouse College"--Provided by publisher.
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