The Essential Kerner Commission Report (Paperback)

The Kerner Commission Report, released a month before Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 assassination, is among a handful of government reports that reads like an illuminating history book-a dramatic, often shocking, exploration of systemic racism that transcends its time. Yet Columbia University professor and New Yorker correspondent Jelani Cobb argues that this prescient report, which examined more than a dozen urban uprisings between 1964 and 1967, has been woefully neglected. In an enlightening new introduction, Cobb reveals how these uprisings were used as political fodder by Republicans and demonstrates that this condensed edition of the Report should be essential reading at a moment when protest movements are challenging us to uproot racial injustice. A detailed examination of economic inequality, race, and policing, the Report has never been more relevant, and demonstrates to devastating effect that it is possible for us to be entirely cognizant of history and still tragically repeat it.

General

Imprint:	Liveright Publishing Corporation
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2021
Editors:	Jelani Cobb • Matthew Guariglia
Introduction by:	Jelani Cobb
Dimensions:	211 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-1-63149-892-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Financial, taxation, commercial, industrial law > Employment & labour law Books > History > American history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	1-63149-892-4
Barcode:	9781631498923

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