{"product_id":"on-the-other-side-of-freedom-the-case-for-hope-paperback","title":"On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDeray McKesson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Hope and insight and empathy spring from every page. . . . [McKesson] stares down the faces of bigotry and unfreedom and cynicism and doesn't flinch in writing out our marching orders toward freedom.\" --Ibram X. Kendi, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Be an Antiracist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the internationally recognized civil rights activist\/organizer and host of the podcast \u003ci\u003ePod Save the People\u003c\/i\u003e, a meditation on resistance, justice, and freedom, and an intimate portrait of a movement from the front lines. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn August 2014, twenty-nine-year-old activist DeRay Mckesson stood with hundreds of others on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, to push a message of justice and accountability. These protests, and others like them in cities across the country, resulted in the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement. Now, in his first book, Mckesson lays down the intellectual, pragmatic, and political framework for a new liberation movement. Continuing a conversation about activism, resistance, and justice that embraces our nation's complex history, he dissects how deliberate oppression persists, how racial injustice strips our lives of promise, and how technology has added a new dimension to mass action and social change. He argues that our best efforts to combat injustice have been stunted by the belief that racism's wounds are history, and suggests that intellectual purity has curtailed optimistic realism. The book offers a new framework and language for understanding the nature of oppression. With it, we can begin charting a course to dismantle the obvious and subtle structures that limit freedom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHonest, courageous, and imaginative, \u003ci\u003eOn the Other Side of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e is a work brimming with hope. Drawing from his own experiences as an activist, organizer, educator, and public official, Mckesson exhorts all Americans to work to dismantle the legacy of racism and to imagine the best of what is possible. Honoring the voices of a new generation of activists, \u003ci\u003eOn the Other Side of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e is a visionary's call to take responsibility for imagining, and then building, the world we want to live in.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeRay Mckesson is a civil rights activist, community organizer, and the host of Crooked Media's award-winning podcast, \u003ci\u003ePod Save the People\u003c\/i\u003e. He started his career as an educator and came to prominence for his participation in, and documentation of, the Ferguson protests and the movement they birthed, and for publicly advocating for victims of police violence and to end mass incarceration. He's spoken at venues from the White House to the Oxford Union, at universities, and on TV. Named one of \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e's 30 Most Influential People on the Internet and #11 on \u003ci\u003eFortune\u003c\/i\u003e's World's Greatest Leaders list, he has received honorary doctorates from The New School and the Maryland Institute College of Art. A leading voice in the Black Lives Matter movement and the co-founder of Campaign Zero, a policy platform to end police violence, Mckesson lives in Baltimore, Maryland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 03, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756562612512,"sku":"9780525560579","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9efa954d9d2a0304474ceae26ac7bb21.webp?v=1780081004","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/on-the-other-side-of-freedom-the-case-for-hope-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}