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His Name Is George Floyd - One man's life and the struggle for racial justice (Paperback)
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His Name Is George Floyd - One man's life and the struggle for racial justice (Paperback)
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Loot Price R376
Discovery Miles 3 760
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'His Name Is George Floyd is essential for our times.' Ibram X.
Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist 'An intimate, unvarnished
and scrupulous account of his life...brilliantly revealing.' NEW
YORK TIMES You know how he died. This is how he lived. Who was
George Floyd? What did he hope for? What was life like for him? And
why has his death been the catalyst for such a powerful global
response? The murder of George Floyd sparked a summer of activism
and unrest all over the world in 2020, from Shetland to Sao Paolo,
as people marched under the Black Lives Matter banner, demanding an
end to racial injustice. But behind a face that would be graffitied
onto countless murals, and a name that has become synonymous with
civil rights, there is the reality of one man's stolen life. In His
Name is George Floyd we meet the kind young boy who talked his
friends out of beating up a skinny kid from another neighbourhood
and then befriended him on the walk home. Big Floyd the high school
American football player who ignored his coach's pleas to be more
aggressive and felt queasy at the sight of blood. The man who fell
victim to an opioid epidemic we are only just beginning to
understand. The sensitive son and loving father, constantly in
search of a better life in a society determined to write him off
based on things he had no control over: where he grew up, the size
of his body and the colour of his skin. Drawing upon hundreds of
interviews with friends and family members, His Name Is George
Floyd reveals the myriad ways that structural racism shaped Floyd's
life and death - from his forebears' roots in slavery to an
underfunded education, the overpolicing of his community and the
devastating snare of the prison system. By offering us an intimate
portrait of this one, emblematic life, Robert Samuels and Toluse
Olorunnipa deliver a powerful and moving exploration of how a man
who simply wanted to breathe ended up touching the world.
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