The Social Protests Of 2020
Visceral Responses to Police Brutality, COVID-19, and Circumscribed Sexuality
Abstract
The Social Protests of 2020: Visceral Responses to Police Brutality, COVID-19, and Circumscribed Sexuality collects voices from various Black intellectuals — university professors, a scientist, media communication specialist, poets, a visual artist, and political activists — to illustrate how the simultaneity of high-profile political events in the summer of 2020 manifest in our consciousness at one time. Reflecting the contributors’ honest visceral responses, the chapters reveal the anguish, sadness, and motivation to act that each of them experienced in light of police brutality, COVID-19, and the Supreme Court's handling of employment discrimination against LGBTQIA+ communities. These voices address, in carefully reflected and theoretically formed ways, those universal feelings that level all human beings, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexuality, economic status, and education.
Schlagworte
Political Art Black America African American Antiracism Gender Visceral Responses Racism- i–xii Preface i–xii
- 1–14 Introduction 1–14
- 95–118 Love-Love 95–118
- 119–124 Better Late Than Never 119–124
- 209–212 Apocalypse Rot 209–212
- 217–226 The New Rent Party 217–226
- 227–228 opus 132 free 227–228
- 229–230 Worldstar’s Poetica 229–230
- 231–240 Index 231–240