We Testify with Our Lives: How Religion Transformed Radical Thought from Black Power to Black Lives Matter
Terrence L. Johnson, "We Testify with Our Lives: How Religion Transformed Radical Thought from Black Power to Black Lives Matter "
English | ISBN: 0231200455 | 2021 | 312 pages | PDF | 1498 KB
English | ISBN: 0231200455 | 2021 | 312 pages | PDF | 1498 KB
Police killings of unarmed Black people have ignited a national and international response unlike any in decades. But differing from their civil rights-oriented predecessors, today’s activists do not think that the institutions and values of liberal democracy can eradicate structural racism. They draw instead on a Black radical tradition that, Terrence L. Johnson argues, derives its force from its unacknowledged ethical and religious dimensions.
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