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Ladataan... Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond (2016)Tekijä: Marc Lamont Hill
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. continue from page 46 ( ) This book provides an earnest, if dated, examination of social problems that afflict the poor, people of color, and other U.S. minorities as things stood back in 2016. Issues include poor living conditions, police brutality, and mass incarceration. Author Marc Lamont Hill refers to “neoliberalism” as the source of these problems, but, unless I missed something, the author doesn’t really explain what this is or how it works. This book needs to be updated to reflect the George Floyd story and the oppressive designs of the Trump Administration. A wide-ranging book that dips into some of the ways that the powerful oppress the less powerful in America. I already agreed with the author on the issues. It seems like someone who doesn't, but is genuinely interested in learning about the issues, would not be turned off by the tone. I'm not sure I've gained much more *new* insight from reading the book. But I think this book ties together a lot of points well, which helps me think and talk about these things in an orderly way. I think that's pretty valuable. Hill's book is a collection of essays focused on the people whose names have become party of a litany of violence against African-Americans in recent years: Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Sandra Bland, Freddie Gray, Trayvon Martin and others. These people who have been made a Nobody in contemporary America are given their full human dignity in Hill's account of their lives, as well as the incidents that brought their demise and their aftermath. But Hill goes beyond the headlines and uses these incidents as a window into the greater societal and political trends that undergird them: "broken windows" policing, plea bargains denying people accused of crimes of their day in court and the incredible power this gives prosecutors, "Stand Your Ground" laws and the arming of America, mass incarceration, and the neoliberal ideal of running the government "like a business" that leads to the exploitation and disasters of places like Flint, Michigan. This is a powerful book and important book and one I highly recommend that everyone concerned about the future of our nation reads. Favorite Passages: "The case for broken-windows policing is compelling because it lightly dipped in truth. Yet while there is a correlation between disorder (social and physical) and crime, research shows that this relationship is not causal. Simply put, there is no evidence that disorder directly promotes crime. What the evidence does suggest, however, is that the two are linked to the same larger problem: poverty. High levels of unemployment, lack of social resources, and concentrated areas of low income are all root cause of both high crime and disorder. As such, crime would be more effectively redressed by investing economically in neighborhoods rather than targeting them for heightened arrests." - p. 44 näyttää 4/4 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
"Unarmed citizens shot by police. Drinking water turned to poison. Mass incarcerations. We've heard the individual stories. Now a leading public intellectual and acclaimed journalist 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. In Nobody, scholar and journalist Marc Lamont Hill presents a powerful and thought-provoking analysis of race and class by 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. These are the people considered "Nobody" in contemporary America. Through on-the-ground reporting and careful research, 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. To make his case, Hill carefully 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. Timely and eloquent, Nobody is a keen observation of the challenges and contradictions of American democracy, a must-read for anyone wanting to better understand the race and class issues that continue to leave their mark on our country today"-- Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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