Binding: Paperback
Description: The Movement for Black Lives (M 4 BL) has gained worldwide visibility as a grassroots social justice movement distinguished by a decentralized non - hierarchal mode of organization and in 2020 Black Lives Matter protests across the country shook America's moral conscience to its core. M 4 BL rose to prominence in part thanks to its protests against police brutality and misconduct directed at Black Americans. However its animating concerns are far broader calling for a wide range of economic political legal and cultural measures to address what it terms a "war against Black people " as well as the "shared struggle with all oppressed people." Yet despite the significance of the social political and economic goals of M 4 BL as well as the innovative organizational leadership strategies it employs M 4 BL has so far received little sustained philosophical attention. The Movement for Black Lives: Philosophical Perspectives brings philosophical analysis to bear on the aims strategies policy positions and intellectual - historical context of M 4 BL. Leading scholars tackle such themes as: " Black Lives Matter" as a political speech act M 4 BL's conception of the value of Black lives the gender dynamics of the Movement the relation of M 4 BL to other Black liberation movements and transitional justice movements the Movement's new forms of leadership and organization and the impact of racism on the normative assessment of the criminal justice system. The volume broaches a wide range of pressing issues in the philosophy of language social and political philosophy philosophy of race philosophy of gender and the philosophy of punishment. It is vital reading for students and scholars in the humanities and social sciences interested in race inequality and social justice movements.
Title: The Movement For Black Lives Philosophical Perspectives
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780197507780
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 10/15/2021
Category: Ethnic Studies