Why Didn't We Riot?: A Black Man in Trumpland

By: Issac J. Bailey

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Synopsis: In these impassioned, powerful essays, an award-winning journalist deals forthrightly with what it means to be Black in Trump&’s America. South Carolina–based journalist Issac J. Bailey reflects on a wide range of complex, divisive topics—from police brutality and Confederate symbols to respectability politics and white discomfort—which have taken on a fresh urgency with the protest movement sparked by George Floyd&’s killing. Bailey has been honing his views on these issues for the past quarter of a century in his professional and private life, which included an eighteen-year stint as a member of a mostly white Evangelical Christian church. Why Didn&’t We Riot? speaks to and for the millions of Black and Brown people throughout the United States who were effectively pushed back to the back of the bus in the Trump era by a media that prioritized the concerns and feelings of the white working class and an administration that made white supremacists giddy, and explains why the country&’s fate in 2020 and beyond is largely in their hands. It will be an invaluable resource for the everyday reader, as well as political analysts, college professors and students, and political consultants and campaigns vying for high office.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 144 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781635420296
Related ISBNs:: 9781635420289
Publisher:: Other Press, LLC
Date of Addition:: 10/06/20
Copyrighted By:: Issac J. Bailey
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.