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THE BEAST SIDE
LIVING (AND DYING) WHILE BLACK IN AMERICA |
| By: |
D. Watkins, David Talbot (Foreword) |
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Electronic book text |
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£17.98 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1510703403 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781510703407 |
| Publisher: |
SKYHORSE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
8 September, 2015 |
| Pages: |
176 |
| Synopsis: |
A New York Times Best Seller!Searing Dispatches from the Urban Zones Where African American Men Have Become an Endangered SpeciesTo many in the age of Obama, America had succeeded in ? going beyond race," putting the divisions of the past behind us. And then seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot by a wannabe cop in Florida; and then eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; and then Baltimore blew up; and then gunfire shattered a prayer meeting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. Suddenly the entire country awakened to a stark fact: African Americans? particularly young black men? are an endangered species.Now the country's urban war zone is brought powerfully to life by a rising young literary talent, D. Watkins. The author fought his way up on the east side (the ? beast side") of Baltimore, Maryland? or ? Bodymore, Murderland," as his friends call it? surviving murderous business rivals in the drug trade and equally predatory lawmen. Throughout it all, he pursued his education, earning a master's degree from Johns Hopkins University, while staying rooted in his community.When black residents of Baltimore finally decided they had had enough? after the brutal killing of twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray while in police custody? Watkins was on the streets when the city erupted. He writes about his bleeding hometown with the razor-sharp insights of someone who bleeds along with it. Here are true dispatches from the other side of America. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Hot Books |
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Non-returnable |
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