Black Bodies Swinging, 9780241507148
Hardcover
Pillage, defiance, and hope: a Black history fighting for a new world.

Black Bodies Swinging

an american postmortem

$77.72

  • Hardcover

    608 pages

  • Release Date

    1 December 2025

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Summary

Black Bodies Swinging: A History of Pillage and Defiance

By the “leading black historian of the age,” a fierce, distilled history of the pillage and defiance of Black America

The police killing of George Floyd in May 2020 triggered a wave of protests like no other in history. Millions took to the streets in over forty US cities and across the globe in a multiracial, militant, and mobile uprising, calling not only for justice for all Black victims but for vast and visionary c…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241507148
ISBN-10:0241507146
Author:Robin Kelley
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Allen Lane
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:608
Release Date:1 December 2025
Weight:750g
Dimensions:240mm x 156mm x 40mm
About The Author

Robin Kelley

Robin D. G. Kelley is the author of the definitive biography Thelonious Monk, which received the PEN Open Book Award. The recipient of a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship, Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he resides.

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