From Rights to Lives
The Evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle
David Mason author Scott Brooks author Aram Goudsouzian author Mickell Carter author Charity Clay author Althea Legal-Miller author Françoise N Hamlin editor Charles W McKinney editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vanderbilt University Press
Published:31st Mar '24
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Broadly speaking, the traditionally conceptualized mid-twentieth century Civil Rights Movement and the newer #BlackLivesMatter Movement possess some similar qualities. They both represent dynamic, complex moments of possibility and progress. They also share mass-based movement activities, policy/legislative advocacy, grass-roots organizing, and targeted media campaigns. Innovation, growth, and dissension—core aspects of movement work—mark them both. Crucially, these moments also engender aggressive, repressive, multi-level responses to these assertions of Black Humanity.
Rights and Lives critically engages the dynamic relationship between these two moments of liberatory possibility on the Black Freedom Struggle timeline. McKinney and Hamlin invite the contributors to take up what we can learn when we place these moments of struggle in dialogue with each other. They grapple with how our understanding of the postwar moment shapes our analysis of #BLM and wherein lie the discontinuities, in order to glean lessons for future moments of insurgency.
FranÇoise N. Hamlin and Charles W. McKinney Jr. have assembled an impressive collection of scholars that put the Civil Rights Movement and the #BlackLivesMatter Movement in conversation to tease out more nuanced and underrepresented aspects of both movements. The scholarship presented in From Rights to Lives is fresh, timely, and a necessary intervention in understanding the ever-evolving movement for Black lives and liberation."—Regina N. Bradley, author of Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South
"Urgent and necessary, From Rights to Lives is, like the hashtag that inspired a movement, a critical tool for freedom dreaming. There are vital continuities in the cross-disciplinary conversation Hamlin and McKinney have curated here that will reshape how we talk about Black protest and activism for a long time to come."—Scott Poulson-Bryant, author of HUNG: A Meditation on the Measure of Black Men in America
"This timely and updated exploration of 'the long civil rights movement' is an urgently needed volume. Comparisons between facets of Black Lives Matter and the antecedent Civil Rights/Black Power movements open new areas for scholarly examination. The essays move back and forth between contemporary and earlier eras of Black activism and invite fresh thinking about the Black Freedom Struggle."—Dennis C. Dickerson, author of Militant Mediator: Whitney M. Young Jr.
ISBN: 9780826506658
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 272g
274 pages