{"product_id":"america-goddam-violence-black-women-and-the-struggle-for-justice-paperback","title":"America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTreva B. Lindsey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2022, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A righteous indictment of racism and misogyny.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful account of violence against Black women and girls in the United States and their fight for liberation.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Echoing the energy of Nina Simone's searing protest song that inspired the title, this book is a call to action in our collective journey toward just futures. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerica, Goddam \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the combined force of anti-Blackness, misogyny, patriarchy, and capitalism in the lives of Black women and girls in the United States today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through personal accounts and hard-hitting analysis, Black feminist historian Treva B. Lindsey starkly assesses the forms and legacies of violence against Black women and girls, as well as their demands for justice for themselves and their communities. Combining history, theory, and memoir, \u003ci\u003eAmerica, Goddam\u003c\/i\u003e renders visible the gender dynamics of anti-Black violence. Black women and girls occupy a unique status of vulnerability to harm and death, while the circumstances and traumas of this violence go underreported and understudied. \u003ci\u003eAmerica, Goddam\u003c\/i\u003e allows readers to understand \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e How Black women--who have been both victims of anti-Black violence as well as frontline participants--are rarely the focus of Black freedom movements. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e How Black women have led movements demanding justice for Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, Toyin Salau, Riah Milton, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, and countless other Black women and girls whose lives have been curtailed by numerous forms of violence. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e How across generations and centuries, their refusal to remain silent about violence against them led to Black liberation through organizing and radical politics. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerica, Goddam\u003c\/i\u003e powerfully demonstrates that the struggle for justice begins with reckoning with the pervasiveness of violence against Black women and girls in the United States.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eAmerica, Goddam\u003c\/i\u003e is an impeccably researched and intensely told history of the terror, of the violence, of the dehumanization Black women and girls have faced, battled, and resisted. It gripped me, shocked me, angered me, enlightened me, moved me, transformed me. We are better because of this book.\"--Ibram X. Kendi, author o\u003ci\u003ef Stamped from the Beginning \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e How to Be an Antiracist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eAmerica, Goddam\u003c\/i\u003e is the book we have been waiting for. A trenchant examination of the history and consequence of the particular overlap of anti-Blackness and misogyny--misogynoir--that has worked to undermine the life chances of all working-class and poor Black women. Unraveling easy narratives about progress and change in American history, \u003ci\u003eAmerica, Goddam\u003c\/i\u003e's focus on twenty-first-century iterations of the oppression and exploitation of Black women highlights both continuity and change. Treva Lindsey provides the historical and analytical tools necessary to make sense of the endless media and scholastic narratives of abuse and neglect in the coverage of Black women's stories. With extraordinary insight and elemental passion, \u003ci\u003eAmerica, Goddam\u003c\/i\u003e is a critical contribution to the evolving cannon of Black feminist texts and scholarship.\"--Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of \u003ci\u003eHow We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This is not a memoir, but it's personal. This is not journalism, but it reports. This is not fiction, but you'll wonder how it can be true. This is not a bedtime story, but it will leave you tired. \u003ci\u003eAmerica, Goddam\u003c\/i\u003e details the particular violence and specific cruelties Black women and girls endure in the United States. Lindsey maps the policies, practices, and deeply held beliefs that strip Black girls and women of their homes, their health, their freedom, their futures, and their lives. Refusing to maintain scholarly neutrality, Lindsey pours out the spiritual agony of bearing witness (and withness) to the destruction of Black girlhood. She dares her readers to stay present intellectually and emotionally even as she performs a bloody, historical autopsy of American misogynoir, which forces Black women to live the unlivable and compels them to specialize in the wholly impossible. It is not an easy book, but it's necessary. And in the end Lindsey challenges you to choose hope.\"--Melissa Harris-Perry, Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University, media host, and author of \u003ci\u003eSister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes and Black Women in America\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eAmerica, Goddam\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant and powerful book. With scholarly rigor and refreshing clarity, Treva B. Lindsey breaks down the various forms of violence that Black women and girls have been forced to negotiate in the United States. While theoretically rich and historically grounded, this book is also a deeply personal and beautifully vulnerable testimony. Everyone who reads this text will be informed, challenged, inspired, and energized.\"--Tarana Burke, author of \u003ci\u003eUnbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eAmerica, Goddam\u003c\/i\u003e is far more profoundly singular than any so-called intervention. It is more dynamic than any of our literary monuments. Lindsey manages to recast racial terror by finding the rhythm created by Black women tasked with outrunning and resisting racialized gendered terror in the United States. \u003ci\u003eAmerica, Goddam\u003c\/i\u003e should make all of us who purport to write through racial gendered terror and liberation revise everything we thought. I'm gutted by its brilliance.\"--Kiese Laymon, author of \u003ci\u003eHeavy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHow to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Written with insight, care, and verve, \u003ci\u003e American, Goddam\u003c\/i\u003e provides piercing insight into present-day movements including #BlackLives Matter, #SayHer Name, and #MeToo. Lindsey's voice orients us to the book's concerns through the lens of her own life experiences, making clear that \u003ci\u003eAmerica, Goddam \u003c\/i\u003eachieves its effect through a brilliant and unbounded sense of how we can and should arrive at understandings about the origins, forces, and possibilities for resisting violence.\"--Martha S. Jones, author of \u003ci\u003eVanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTreva B. Lindsey \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at Ohio State University and founder of the Transformative Black Feminism(s) Initiative in Columbus, Ohio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 342\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 08, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759150268704,"sku":"9780520397446","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f6860fc7ddb9db6cfa50f1f2d119ea32.webp?v=1780143542","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/america-goddam-violence-black-women-and-the-struggle-for-justice-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}