After Life (eBook)

A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America

Rhae Lynn Barnes, Keri Leigh Merritt, Yohuru Williams (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
360 Seiten
Haymarket Books (Verlag)
978-1-64259-856-8 (ISBN)

Infos

After Lifeis a collective history of how Americans experienced, navigated, commemorated, and ignored mass death and loss during the global COVID-19 pandemic, mass uprisings for racial justice, and the near presidential coup in 2021 following the 2020 election.Inspired by the writers who documented American life during the Great Depression and World War II for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the editors asked twenty-first-century historians and legal experts to focus on the parallels, convergences, and differences between the exceptional long 2020, while it unfolds, and earlier eras in U.S. History.Providing context for the entire volume,After LifesIntroduction explains how COVID-19 and America's long history of inequality, combined with a corrupt and unconcerned federal government, produced one of the darkest times in our nations history. Discussing the rise of the COVID-19 death toll in the United States, eventually exceeding the 1918 flu, the AIDS epidemic, and the Civil War, it ties public health, immigration, white supremacy, elections history, and epidemics together, and provides a short history of the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 and the beginnings of a Third Reconstruction.After Lifedocuments how Americans have dealt with grief, pain, and loss, both individually and communally, and how we endure and thrive. The title is an affirmation that even in our suspended half-living during lockdowns and quarantines, we are a nation of survivorswith an unprecedented chance to rebuild society in a more equitable way.Contributors include: Gwendolyn Hall, Heather Ann Thompson, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Keith Ellison, Keri Leigh Merritt, Martha Hodes, Mary Kathryn Nagle, Mary L. Dudziak, Monica Muoz Martinez, Peniel E. Joseph, Philip J. Deloria, Rhae Lynn Barnes, Robert L. Tsai, Robin D. G. Kelley, Scott Poulson-Bryant, Stephen Berry, Tera W. Hunter, Ula Y. Taylor, and, Yohuru Williams.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.10.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Pandemic, History, Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Hope, Racism, Inequity, COVID, American History, 1619 Project, Critical Race Theory, Civil War, Revolutionary War, Lincoln, January 6th
• ISBN-10: 1-64259-856-9 / 1642598569
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64259-856-8 / 9781642598568