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Book SynopsisBiko Mandela Gray offers a philosophical eulogy for Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Tamir Rice, Alton Sterling, and Sandra Bland that attests to their irreducible significance in the face of unremitting police brutality.
Trade Review“[Black Life Matter] is an incredible work examining the lost lives of four key figures in thepost-modern Civil Rights Movement, also known as Black Lives Matter. . . . Mandela Gray does an amazing job at demonstrating, and never forgetting, the recent atrocities and injustices of our culture.”
-- Josh Barker * Amsterdam News *
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Black Life Matter is a wonderful book that explores the meaning of Black bodies and their corporality as living matter. . . . This book works as an instrument to mourn, honour, and actively remember not only the lives and death of the four victims described in each of the chapters but any other Black life that has been stolen.” -- Felipe Agudelo * Ethnic and Racial Studies *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Hands and Braids 31
2. “What I Do?” 55
3. “I Am Irritated, I Really Am” 85
Conclusion 113
Notes 123
Bibliography 149
Index 159
