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After Life - A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America (Paperback) Loot Price: R622
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After Life - A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America (Paperback): Rhae Lynn Barnes, Keri Leigh Merritt,...

After Life - A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America (Paperback)

Rhae Lynn Barnes, Keri Leigh Merritt, Yohuru Williams

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After Life is 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 Life's Introduction 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 nation's 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 Life documents 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 survivors-with 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 Munoz 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.

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Imprint: Haymarket Books
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 2022
Editors: Rhae Lynn Barnes • Keri Leigh Merritt • Yohuru Williams
Dimensions: 215 x 139 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 978-1-64259-829-2
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > General
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LSN: 1-64259-829-1
Barcode: 9781642598292

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