Why Didn't We Riot?

A Black Man in Trumpland

Why Didn't We Riot?
Issac J Bailey
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Paperback
h191 x 127mm - 192pg
1 Feb 2022 US
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9781635422214
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In A Black Man in Trumpland, South Carolina-based journalist Issac J. Bailey reflects on a wide range of topics that have been increasingly dividing Americans, from police brutality and Confederate symbols to poverty and respectability politics. 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. This book 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 political campaigns vying for high office.
"[Bailey' s essays] are incisive as they confront the realities of systemic racism in America. . . essential reading. " --Foreword Reviews"This is such a timely book, delivered into our hands at precisely the moment when we are reckoning with the cruel legacies of racism and inequality in a manner we never have before. A searing, honest, and essential read for anyone who wishes to know how we got here, and how we might escape. " --Tope Folarin, author of A Particular Kind of Black Man"In Issac J. Bailey' s book, James Baldwin meets James Bond--that is, Bailey performs a kind of racial spy mission, bringing back intelligence from deep in Trumpland about the kind of thinking that continues to have disastrous consequences for our country. Why Didn' t We Riot? is a very important book. " --Clifford Thompson, author of What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man' s BluesPraise for My Brother Moochie: "With a keen understanding of systemic racism. . . My Brother Moochie delves into a rarely explored side of the criminal justice system: the families of the perpetrators. . . powerful. " --New York Times Book Review "Bailey' s memoir is a triumph, a painful indictment of American inhumanity woven with threads of grace and love. . . an extraordinary book about crime, punishment, redemption, and the empowerment that can spring from adversity. . . nuanced, original, and remarkably clear-sighted. " --The Guardian "An elegant memoir that speaks to the inequities of the criminal justice system and the damage done to family and community when loved ones are locked away. . . Bailey tells his story with a raw honesty [and] boldly examines the fault lines etched so sharply in our current cultural landscape. " --USA Today
Issac J. Bailey is an award-winning journalist and the James K. Batten Professor of Communication Studies at Davidson College. He has been published in the Washington Post, Charlotte Observer, Politico Magazine, TIME, The Guardian, and many more, and has appeared on NPR, CNN, and MSNBC. Bailey was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and has taught journalism and applied ethics at Coastal Carolina University. He currently lives in Myrtle Beach with his wife and two children.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781635422214
Published: 1 Feb 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Other Press LLC
Publisher: Other Press LLC
Format: Paperback
Height: 191mm
Width: 127mm
Pages: 192

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