The Summer of 2020
George Floyd and the Resurgence of the Black Lives Matter Movement
$66.02
- Paperback
277 pages
- Release Date
14 March 2024
Summary
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder in May 2020, protests broke out in Minneapolis and quickly spread across the United States. National unrest led to the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement and added to calls for justice in other American cities, including Los Angeles, Atlanta, Tulsa, and Louisville, Kentucky, where only months earlier, Breonna Taylor was killed by police. By some estimates, BLM protesters numbered between fifteen million and twenty-six million in the US and abroa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781496849755 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1496849752 |
| Author: | Andre E. Johnson, Amanda Nell Edgar |
| Publisher: | University Press of Mississippi |
| Imprint: | University Press of Mississippi |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 277 |
| Release Date: | 14 March 2024 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series |
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Critics Review
By centering the voices of BLM activists, The Summer of 2020 offers an informative, fresh perspective on and deepens extant analysis of the Black Lives Matter movements.” - Patricia G. Davis, coeditor of Rupturing Rhetoric: The Politics of Race and Popular Culture since Ferguson“Through exceptional writing, The Summer of 2020 walks the line between popular discourse and academic argument in order to document and comment from ‘on the ground’ work of the Black Lives Matter movement.” - Daniel White Hodge, author of Baptized in Dirty Water: Reimagining The Gospel According to Tupac Amaru Shakur
About The Author
Andre E. Johnson
Andre E. Johnson is associate professor of rhetoric and media studies and a university research fellow at the University of Memphis. He is author of No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and editor of The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner: The Press, the Platform, and the Pulpit.
Amanda Nell Edgar studies issues of race and racism as they intersect with other identities, particularly gender and class. She is author of Culturally Speaking: The Rhetoric of Voice and Identity in a Mediated Culture. Together, Johnson and Edgar are coauthors of The Struggle over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter.
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