Black power, White heat : from solidarity politics to radical chic / Alice Echols.

Abstract "It felt like a turning point. Suddenly, masses of angry Americans were taking to the streets in protests that just exploded, seemingly out of nowhere. Making this all the more remarkable, the country was still in the depths of a pandemic lockdown, with no end in sight. That summer, the summer of 2020, between 15 and 26 million Americans participated in demonstrations, some of them day after day. It had the look of solidarity, that is, of unity across difference. Igniting the protests was the May 25th murder of George Floyd, a Black resident of Minneapolis, Minnesota whom police arrested for using a fake $20 bill to buy a pack of cigarettes. What made his murder so devastatingly incomprehensible was the sadistic casualness with which it was carried out. For nearly ten minutes, the handcuffed Floyd was pinned to the ground, with the full weight of a white policeman's knee firmly planted on his neck. A bystander, seventeen-year-old Darnella Frazier recorded Floyd's murder, including his choked cries. She posted the video to Facebook and Instagram where it went instantly viral"-- Provided by publisher.
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Issued in other formOnline version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Echols, Alice Black power, White heat New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025] 9780197789056
LCCN 2025030147
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ISBN019778903X hardcover
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