The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America
ISBN-13:
9781510703353
ISBN-10:
1510703357
Author:
D. Watkins
Publication date:
2015
Publisher:
Hot Books
Format:
Hardcover
176 pages
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ISBN-13:
9781510703353
ISBN-10:
1510703357
Author:
D. Watkins
Publication date:
2015
Publisher:
Hot Books
Format:
Hardcover
176 pages
Summary
The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America (ISBN-13: 9781510703353 and ISBN-10: 1510703357), written by authors
D. Watkins, was published by Hot Books in 2015.
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Searing Dispatches from the Urban Zones Where African American Men Have Become an Endangered Species
To many in the age of Obama, America had succeeded in going beyond race,” putting the divisions of the past behind us. And then seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot by a wannabe cop in Florida; and then eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; and then Baltimore blew up; and then gunfire shattered a prayer meeting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. Suddenly the entire country awakened to a stark fact: African Americansparticularly young black menare an endangered species.
Now the country’s urban war zone is brought powerfully to life by a rising young literary talent, D. Watkins. The author fought his way up on the east side (the beast side”) of Baltimore, Marylandor Bodymore, Murderland,” as his friends call itsurviving murderous business rivals in the drug trade and equally predatory lawmen. Throughout it all, he pursued his education, earning a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University, while staying rooted in his community.
When black residents of Baltimore finally decided they had had enoughafter the brutal killing of twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray while in police custodyWatkins was on the streets when the city erupted. He writes about his bleeding hometown with the razor-sharp insights of someone who bleeds along with it. Here are true dispatches from the other side of America.
Searing Dispatches from the Urban Zones Where African American Men Have Become an Endangered Species
To many in the age of Obama, America had succeeded in going beyond race,” putting the divisions of the past behind us. And then seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot by a wannabe cop in Florida; and then eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; and then Baltimore blew up; and then gunfire shattered a prayer meeting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. Suddenly the entire country awakened to a stark fact: African Americansparticularly young black menare an endangered species.
Now the country’s urban war zone is brought powerfully to life by a rising young literary talent, D. Watkins. The author fought his way up on the east side (the beast side”) of Baltimore, Marylandor Bodymore, Murderland,” as his friends call itsurviving murderous business rivals in the drug trade and equally predatory lawmen. Throughout it all, he pursued his education, earning a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University, while staying rooted in his community.
When black residents of Baltimore finally decided they had had enoughafter the brutal killing of twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray while in police custodyWatkins was on the streets when the city erupted. He writes about his bleeding hometown with the razor-sharp insights of someone who bleeds along with it. Here are true dispatches from the other side of America.
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