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More Than Our Pain
2021
Overview
Confronted by a crisis in black American leadership,
state-sanctioned violence against black communities, and colorblind
laws that trap black Americans in a racial caste system, Black
Lives Matter activists and the artists inspired by them have
devised new forms of political and cultural resistance. More
Than Our Pain explores how affect and emotion can drive
collective political and cultural action in the face of a new nadir
in race relations in the United States. This foregrounding of
affect and emotion marks a clear break from civil rights-era
activists, who were often trained to counter false narratives about
protesters as thugs and criminals by presenting themselves as
impeccably groomed and disciplined young black Americans. In
contrast, the Black Lives Matter movement in the early twenty-first
century makes no qualms about rejecting the politics of
respectability. Affect and emotion has moved from the margin to the
center of this new human rights movement, and by examining
righteous rage, black joy, as well as grief and fatigue among other
emotions, the contributors celebrate the vitality of black life
while documenting those who have harmed it. They also criticize the
ways in which journalism has commercialized and sold black affect
during coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement and point to
strategies and modes-of-being needed to overcome the fatigue
surrounding conversations of race and racism in the United States.
Publisher
State University of New York Press,SUNY Press
Subject
/ Affect (Psychology) -- Political aspects -- United States
/ Affect (Psychology) -- Social aspects -- United States
/ African Americans -- Psychology
/ African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975
/ Emotions
/ Emotions -- Political aspects -- United States
/ Emotions -- Social aspects -- United States
/ History
ISBN
1438483112, 9781438483115
