The Beast Side: Living and Dying While Black in America (USED)

Description: Product Description : The Beast Side: Living and Dying While Black in America A New York Times Best Seller Baltimore one of our countrys quintessential urban war zones is brought powerfully to life by literary talent D WatkinsTo many the past 8 years under President Obama were meant to usher in a new postracial American political era dissolving the divisions of the past However when seventeenyearold Trayvon Martin was shot by a wannabe cop in Florida and then Ferguson Missouri happened and then South Carolina hit the headlines and then Baltimore blew up it was hard to find any evidence of a new postracial orderSuddenly the entire country seemed to be awakened to a stark fact African American men are in danger in America This has only become clearer as groups like Black Lives Matter continue to draw attention to this reality daily not only online but also in the streets of our nations embattled citiesD Watkins fought his way up on the eastside the beastside of Baltimore Marylandor Bodymore Murderland as his friends call it He writes openly and unapologetically about what it took to survive life on the streets while the casualties piled up around him including his own brother Watkins pushed drugs to pay his way through school staying one step ahead of murderous business rivals and equally predatory lawmen When black residents of Baltimore finally decided they had had enoughafter the brutal killing of twentyfiveyearold Freddie Gray while in police custodyWatkins was on the streets as the city erupted He writes about his bleeding city with the razorsharp insights of someone who bleeds along with it Here are true dispatches from the other side of AmericaIn this new paperback edition the author has also added new material in a section title Bonus Tracks responding to the rising tide of racial resentment and hate embodied by political figures like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz as well as the heartbreaking killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile and the impact this has had on issues of race in America This book is essential reading for anyone trying to make sense of the chaos of our current political moment( it is an used product )

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