Black Life Matter by Biko Mandela Gray

Black Life Matter by Biko Mandela Gray

Biko Mandela Gray offers a philosophical eulogy for Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Tamir Rice, Alton Sterling, and Sandra Bland that attests to their irreducible significance in the face of unremitting police brutality.

“[Black Life Matter] is an incredible work examining the lost lives of four key figures in thepost-modern Civil Rights Movement, also known as Black Lives Matter. . . Mandela Gray does an amazing job at demonstrating, and never forgetting, the recent atrocities and injustices of our culture.”

-- Josh Barker * Amsterdam News *
“Black Life Matter is a wonderful book that explores the meaning of Black bodies and their corporality as living matter. . . . This book works as an instrument to mourn, honour, and actively remember not only the lives and death of the four victims described in each of the chapters but any other Black life that has been stolen.” -- Felipe Agudelo * Ethnic and Racial Studies *
"Gray’s courageous take on offering theory and religious attentiveness to Blackness and Black lives creates a space where Ayana, Tamir, Alton, Sandra and so many others can be honored for the fullness of who they were to their families and to this world—and not only be reduced to what happened to them on this plane. . . . Black Life Matter is an everlasting reminder that Blackness bears infinity within it and no matter what or who tries to terminate it, Blackness essences eternity. It cannot be captured. It will not end." -- Oluwatomisin Olayinka Oredein * Reading Religion *
"Gray’s work, through the attentive comfort and defense of those who are “already dead, those dying, and those living lives consigned to the possibility of always imminent death,” will remain ever relevant (5)." -- David Latimore * Homiletic *

Biko Mandela Gray is Assistant Professor of Religion at Syracuse University and coeditor of The Religion of White Rage: White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress.

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ISBN 13	9781478014843
ISBN 10	1478014849
Title	Black Life Matter
Author	Biko Mandela Gray
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Duke University Press
Year published	2022-11-29
Number of pages	176
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