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August 23, 2020
[In my ratings 2 means quite OK and 3 means good.]
Nobody exposes injustice without quite bludgeoning the reader, an accomplishment for a book-length argument. One quibble: I never felt that the titular category was well-defined. In the end I decided, somewhat circularly, that it means 'people who, when one sees their realities, one thinks deserve better treatment from society than they get.' I found myself reading very quickly and wanting to be finished, only to chastise myself with awareness that reading enjoyment is anything but the point. It's a helpful book that is timely for simultaneously sharpening the focus and broadening the reach of the necessarily simple Black Lives Matter slogan.
Nobody exposes injustice without quite bludgeoning the reader, an accomplishment for a book-length argument. One quibble: I never felt that the titular category was well-defined. In the end I decided, somewhat circularly, that it means 'people who, when one sees their realities, one thinks deserve better treatment from society than they get.' I found myself reading very quickly and wanting to be finished, only to chastise myself with awareness that reading enjoyment is anything but the point. It's a helpful book that is timely for simultaneously sharpening the focus and broadening the reach of the necessarily simple Black Lives Matter slogan.
February 28, 2026
“These shifting social and cultural dynamics are the perfect complement to the current neoliberal economic moment. At the same time that market logic promotes the private interest over public good, everything else in our society becomes increasingly fractured, fragmented, and individualized. … Activism is being taken up through symbolic social-media features rather than engaged, on the ground struggles. … Individual philanthropy rather than sound public policy has become the proposed solution to our social problem. And, tragically, those who are unable to survive America’s war on the vulnerable are blamed exclusively for their own failures.” (p. 179)
I really liked this book. It is and Informative essay that evaluates systems that facilitate structural and systemic oppression of minority and/or marginalized populations in the United States. Heavily researched and cited, this dialogue explores high profile cases of race-based and/or discriminatory violence against minorities that has been politically sanctioned. To illustrate the systems which support these manifestations of inequality , an exploration into the philosophy of policing, the prison system, capitalism, economic privatization, and more broadly social politics is constructed through historical accounts of the development of policy, with attention to how these approaches have been either distorted or built to leverage privilege, enforce oppression, and rationalize racism’.
I really liked this book. It is and Informative essay that evaluates systems that facilitate structural and systemic oppression of minority and/or marginalized populations in the United States. Heavily researched and cited, this dialogue explores high profile cases of race-based and/or discriminatory violence against minorities that has been politically sanctioned. To illustrate the systems which support these manifestations of inequality , an exploration into the philosophy of policing, the prison system, capitalism, economic privatization, and more broadly social politics is constructed through historical accounts of the development of policy, with attention to how these approaches have been either distorted or built to leverage privilege, enforce oppression, and rationalize racism’.
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