The Evidence of Things Not Seen
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| Verlag | Macmillan US |
| Auflage | 2023 |
| Seiten | 144 |
| Format | 13,7 x 20,8 x 0,7 cm |
| Gewicht | 170 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781250844897 |
| Bestell-Nr | 25084489UA |
Over twenty-two months in 1979 and 1981 nearly two dozen children were unspeakably murdered in Atlanta despite national attention and outcry; they were all Black. James Baldwin investigated these murders, the Black administration in Atlanta, and Wayne Williams, the Black man tried for the crimes. Because there was only evidence to convict Williams for the murders of two men, the children's cases were closed, offering no justice to the families or the country. Baldwin's incisive analysis implicates the failures of integration as the guilt party, arguing, "There could be no more devastating proof of this assault than the slaughter of the children."
As Stacey Abrams writes in her foreword, "The humanity of black children, of black men and women, of black lives, has ever been a conundrum for America. Forty years on, Baldwin's writing reminds us that we have never resolved the core query: Do black lives matter? Unequivocally, the moral answer is yes, but James Baldwin refuse s such rhetorical comfort." In this, his last book, by excavating American race relations Baldwin exposes the hard-to-face ingrained issues and demands that we all reckon with them.
Rezension:
"To grapple with the pervasiveness of American racism, we can always turn to James Baldwin. You cannot help but admire his words in this volume as they remain as relevant today as when they first appeared."
-Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist and Stamped from the Beginning
"Baldwin's insightful depiction of Atlanta seeing itself as separate from Georgia's politics has a heartbeat that is still pounding in today's political climate."
-Kimberly Jones, activist and author of How We Can Win