Book Review
From #blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation is a novel chronicling the more recent events of discrimination in history, especially pertaining to the Black population. The author, Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, gives the reader an analysis on why the #blacklivesmatter movement is essential in the fight for Civil Rights, and she gives us a case for a more radical movement as well.
Dr. Taylor first introduces us to the concept of institutional and American racism. She begins to critique the post-racial/color-blindness rhetoric of most political agendas and people. Dr. Taylor lists three key concepts as mainly contributing to this phenomenon: implicit institutional racism, the creation of the stereotypical successful Black person, and the election of a Black President. The last two are not certainly terrible things to happen, but are rather examples of economic inequality and poverty being used to deployed implicit racism among society. Dr. Taylor elaborates:
“Thousands of Black elected officials...corporate executives...Black Hollywood socialites...and multimillionaire athletes animate the ‘postracial’ landscape in the United …show more content…
We are forced to ask ourselves why many conditions for Black communities are still, to put it lightly, sub-par, especially when compared to white suburban areas or gentrified cities. Dr. Taylor offers a hypothesis for this conundrum:
“Black elected officials obscure their actions under a cloak of imagined racial solidarity, while ignoring their role as arbiters of political power who willingly operate in a political terrain designed to exploit and oppress African Americans and other working-class
From #blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation is a novel chronicling the more recent events of discrimination in history, especially pertaining to the Black population. The author, Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, gives the reader an analysis on why the #blacklivesmatter movement is essential in the fight for Civil Rights, and she gives us a case for a more radical movement as well.
Dr. Taylor first introduces us to the concept of institutional and American racism. She begins to critique the post-racial/color-blindness rhetoric of most political agendas and people. Dr. Taylor lists three key concepts as mainly contributing to this phenomenon: implicit institutional racism, the creation of the stereotypical successful Black person, and the election of a Black President. The last two are not certainly terrible things to happen, but are rather examples of economic inequality and poverty being used to deployed implicit racism among society. Dr. Taylor elaborates:
“Thousands of Black elected officials...corporate executives...Black Hollywood socialites...and multimillionaire athletes animate the ‘postracial’ landscape in the United …show more content…
We are forced to ask ourselves why many conditions for Black communities are still, to put it lightly, sub-par, especially when compared to white suburban areas or gentrified cities. Dr. Taylor offers a hypothesis for this conundrum:
“Black elected officials obscure their actions under a cloak of imagined racial solidarity, while ignoring their role as arbiters of political power who willingly operate in a political terrain designed to exploit and oppress African Americans and other working-class