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A riveting exploration of how visual media has shifted the
narrative on race and reignited the push towards justice by the
author of the "worthy and necessary" (The New York Times) Nobody
Marc Lamont Hill and the bestselling author and acclaimed
journalist Todd Brewster. With his signature "clear and courageous"
(Cornel West) voice Marc Lamont Hill and New York Times bestselling
author Todd Brewster weave four recent pivotal moments in America's
racial divide into their disturbing historical context-starting
with the killing of George Floyd. Seen and Unseen reveals the
connections between our current news headlines and social media
feeds and the country's long struggle against racism. Drawing on
the powerful role of technology as a driver of history, identity,
and racial consciousness, Seen and Unseen asks why, after so much
video confirmation of police violence on people of color, it took
the footage of George Floyd to trigger an overwhelming response of
sympathy and outrage. In the vein of The New Jim Crow and Caste,
Seen and Unseen incisively explores what connects our moment to the
history of race in America but also what makes today different from
the civil rights movements of the past and what it will ultimately
take to push social justice forward.
A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the
issues of Israel-Palestine In this major work of daring criticism
and analysis, scholar and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill
and Israel-Palestine expert Mitchell Plitnick spotlight how
one-sided pro-Israel policies reflect the truth-bending grip of
authoritarianism on both Israel and the United States. Except for
Palestine argues that progressives and liberals who oppose
regressive policies on immigration, racial justice, gender
equality, LGBTQ rights, and other issues must extend these core
principles to the oppression of Palestinians. In doing so, the
authors take seriously the political concerns and well-being of
both Israelis and Palestinians, demonstrating the extent to which
U.S. policy has made peace harder to attain. They also unravel the
conflation of advocacy for Palestinian rights with anti-Semitism
and hatred of Israel. Hill and Plitnick provide a timely and
essential intervention by examining multiple dimensions of the
Israeli-Palestinian conversation, including Israel's growing
disdain for democracy, the effects of occupation on Palestine, the
siege of Gaza, diminishing American funding for Palestinian relief,
and the campaign to stigmatize any critique of Israeli occupation.
Except for Palestine is a searing polemic and a cri de coeur for
elected officials, activists, and everyday citizens alike to align
their beliefs and politics with their values.
In the midst of loss and death and suffering, our charge is to
figure out what freedom really means-and how we take steps to get
there. "In the United States, being poor and Black makes you more
likely to get sick. Being poor, Black, and sick makes you more
likely to die. Your proximity to death makes you disposable." The
uprising of 2020 marked a new phase in the unfolding Movement for
Black Lives. The brutal killings of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd,
and Breonna Taylor, and countless other injustices large and small,
were the match that lit the spark of the largest protest movement
in US history, a historic uprising against racism and the politics
of disposability that the Covid-19 pandemic lays bare. In this
urgent and incisive collection of new interviews bookended by two
new essays, Marc Lamont Hill critically examines the "pre-existing
conditions" that have led us to this moment of crisis and upheaval,
guiding us through both the perils and possibilities, and helping
us imagine an abolitionist future.
Nobody is a powerful and eye-opening examination of the deeper
meaning behind the string of deaths of unarmed citizens like
Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Freddie Gray. Unarmed citizens shot
by police. Drinking water turned to poison. Mass incarcerations.
We've heard the stories. Now public intellectual and acclaimed
journalist Marc Lamont Hill offers a powerful, paradigm-shifting
analysis of race and class in America, and what it means to be
"Nobody." Through on-the-ground reporting and careful research,
Hill shows how some American citizens are made vulnerable,
exploitable, and disposable through the machinery of unregulated
capitalism, public policy, and social practice. This Nobody class,
Hill argues, has emerged over time, and forces in America have
worked to preserve and exploit it in ways that are both humiliating
and harmful. He carefully reconsiders the details of tragic events
like the deaths of Michael Brown, Sandra Bland, and Freddie Gray,
and the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, and delves deeply into a
host of alarming trends including mass incarceration, overly
aggressive policing, broken court systems, shrinking job markets,
and the privatization of public resources, showing time and again
the ways the current system is designed to worsen the plight of the
vulnerable.
A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the
issues of Israel-Palestine, from a New York Times bestselling
author and an expert on U.S. policy in the region In this major
work of daring criticism and analysis, scholar and political
commentator Marc Lamont Hill and Israel-Palestine expert Mitchell
Plitnick spotlight how holding fast to one-sided and unwaveringly
pro-Israel policies reflects the truth-bending grip of
authoritarianism on both Israel and the United States. Except for
Palestine deftly argues that progressives and liberals who oppose
regressive policies on immigration, racial justice, gender
equality, LGBTQ rights, and other issues must extend these core
principles to the oppression of Palestinians. In doing so, the
authors take seriously the political concerns and well-being of
both Israelis and Palestinians, demonstrating the extent to which
U.S. policy has made peace harder to attain. They also unravel the
conflation of advocacy for Palestinian rights with anti-Semitism
and hatred of Israel. Hill and Plitnick provide a timely and
essential intervention by examining multiple dimensions of the
Israeli-Palestinian conversation, including Israel's growing
disdain for democracy, the effects of occupation on Palestine, the
siege of Gaza, diminishing American funding for Palestinian relief,
and the campaign to stigmatize any critique of Israeli occupation.
Except for Palestine is a searing polemic and a cri de coeur for
elected officials, activists, and everyday citizens alike to align
their beliefs and politics with their values.
In the midst of loss and death and suffering, our charge is to
figure out what freedom really means-and how we take steps to get
there. "In the United States, being poor and Black makes you more
likely to get sick. Being poor, Black, and sick makes you more
likely to die. Your proximity to death makes you disposable." The
uprising of 2020 marked a new phase in the unfolding Movement for
Black Lives. The brutal killings of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd,
and Breonna Taylor, and countless other injustices large and small,
were the match that lit the spark of the largest protest movement
in US history, a historic uprising against racism and the politics
of disposability that the Covid-19 pandemic lays bare. In this
urgent and incisive collection of new interviews bookended by two
new essays, Marc Lamont Hill critically examines the "pre-existing
conditions" that have led us to this moment of crisis and upheaval,
guiding us through both the perils and possibilities, and helping
us imagine an abolitionist future.
This book brings together veteran and emerging scholars from a
variety of fields to chart new territory for hip-hop based
education. Looking beyond rap music and the English language arts
classroom, innovative chapters unpack the theory and practice of
hip-hop based education in science, social studies, college
composition, teacher education, and other fields. Authors consider
not only the curricular aspects of hip-hop but also how its deeper
aesthetics such as improvisational freestyling and competitive
battling can shape teaching and learning in both secondary and
higher education classrooms. Schooling Hip-Hop will spark new and
creative uses of hip-hop culture in a variety of educational
settings.
This collection of conversations between celebrity intellectual
Marc Lamont Hill and famed political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is a
shining example of African American men speaking for themselves
about the many forces impacting their lives. Covering topics such
as race, politics, hip-hop culture, education, mass incarceration,
and love, their discussions shine a spotlight on some of the most
pressing issues in 21st century African American life.
Marc Lamont Hill shares his experience teaching a hip-hop centered
English literature course in a Philadelphia high school where rap
music, turntablism, breakdancing, graffiti culture, and other
aspects of hip-hop were incorporated into the curriculum. Drawing
on that experience and on his academic work on youth culture,
identity, and educational processes, Hill offers a compelling case
for the power of hip-hop, not just in driving up attendance and
test performance, but in helping students forge their identities in
an educational setting. For over a decade, educators have looked to
capitalize on the appeal of hip-hop culture, sampling its language,
techniques, and styles as a way of reaching out to students. But
beyond a fashionable hipness, what does hip-hop have to offer our
schools? Marc Lamont Hill shows, in this revelatory new book, it is
the opportunity to affect students' lives in extraordinary ways.
Media, Learning, and Sites of Possibility provides new insights
into the relationships between youth, pedagogy, and media, and
points to unexamined possibilities for teaching, learning, and
ethnographic research that emerge when media - including computer
technologies, photography, popular music, and film - become central
features of learning spaces that youth occupy. Through six
empirically driven essays, all written by new scholars in the
fields of literacy, media, technology, and youth culture, this book
surveys a variety of learning environments, methodological
approaches, and forms of media engagement.
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Gentrifier (Paperback)
John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, Marc Lamont Hill; Foreword by Peter Marcuse
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R722
Discovery Miles 7 220
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Gentrifier opens up a new conversation about gentrification, one
that goes beyond the statistics and the cliches, and examines
different sides of a controversial, deeply personal issue. In this
lively yet rigorous book, John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, and
Marc Lamont Hill take a close look at the socioeconomic factors and
individual decisions behind gentrification and their implications
for the displacement of low-income residents. Drawing on a variety
of perspectives, the authors present interviews, case studies, and
analysis in the context of recent scholarship in such areas as
urban sociology, geography, planning, and public policy. As well,
they share accounts of their first-hand experience as academics,
parents, and spouses living in New York City, San Diego, Chicago,
Philadelphia, and Providence. With unique insight and rare candour,
Gentrifier challenges readers' current understandings of
gentrification and their own roles within their neighborhoods. A
foreword by Peter Marcuse opens the volume.
This book brings together veteran and emerging scholars from a
variety of fields to chart new territory for hip-hop based
education. Looking beyond rap music and the English language arts
classroom, innovative chapters unpack the theory and practice of
hip-hop based education in science, social studies, college
composition, teacher education, and other fields. Authors consider
not only the curricular aspects of hip-hop but also how its deeper
aesthetics such as improvisational freestyling and competitive
battling can shape teaching and learning in both secondary and
higher education classrooms. Schooling Hip-Hop will spark new and
creative uses of hip-hop culture in a variety of educational
settings.
Marc Lamont Hill shares his experience teaching a hip-hop centered
English literature course in a Philadelphia high school where rap
music, turntablism, breakdancing, graffiti culture, and other
aspects of hip-hop were incorporated into the curriculum. Drawing
on that experience and on his academic work on youth culture,
identity, and educational processes, Hill offers a compelling case
for the power of hip-hop, not just in driving up attendance and
test performance, but in helping students forge their identities in
an educational setting. For over a decade, educators have looked to
capitalize on the appeal of hip-hop culture, sampling its language,
techniques, and styles as a way of reaching out to students. But
beyond a fashionable hipness, what does hip-hop have to offer our
schools? Marc Lamont Hill shows, in this revelatory new book, it is
the opportunity to affect students' lives in extraordinary ways.
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