{"product_id":"after-life-a-collective-history-of-loss-and-redemption-in-pandemic-america-hardcover","title":"After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRhae Lynn Barnes\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eKeri Leigh Merritt\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eYohuru Williams\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfter Life\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eProviding context for the entire volume, \u003cem\u003eAfter Life's\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfter Life\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRhae Lynn Barnes is an Assistant Professor at Princeton University and the Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African \u0026amp; African American Research at Harvard University. She was the 2020 President of the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography. Barnes is the author of the forthcoming book \u003cem\u003eDarkology: When the American Dream Wore Blackface.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKeri Leigh Merritt\u003c\/strong\u003e is a historian, writer, and activist based in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eMasterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South\u003c\/em\u003e, and the co-editor of \u003cem\u003eReconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYohuru Williams Distinguished University Chair and Professor of History, and founding director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eBlack Politics\/White Power: Civil Rights Black Power and Black Panthers in New Haven\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRethinking the Black Freedom Movement\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eTeaching Beyond the Textbook: Six Investigative Strategies.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 360\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51783123992864,"sku":"9781642598759","price":76.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/85a6c5b92dcd4a25e5d89c6aa40ab5f5.webp?v=1780580778","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/after-life-a-collective-history-of-loss-and-redemption-in-pandemic-america-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}