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The Social Protests of 2020: Visceral Responses to Police Brutality, COVID-19, and Circumscribed Sexuality collects the reactions of Black intellectuals to police brutality, COVID-19, and the Supreme Court's handling of employment discrimination against LGBTQIA+ communities.
List of contents
Chapter I: The Space Between Grief and Gratitude: A Letter to My Beloved Friends"
Ana-Maurine Lara
Chapter II: "Moving to the Left: Black Response to Structural Violence"
Wende Marshall
Chapter III: "People Who Have Done Bad Things: Why the Idea of Police Has Failed"
Melba Joyce Boyd
Chapter IV: "Sanctioned Murders: An Epidemic Disease"
Joyce A. Joyce
Chapter V: "No Love: 'Tennis' in the Era of Pills, Exceptionalism, and Black Lives Matter"
Gregory E. Rutledge,
Chapter VI: "Better Late than Never"
Donna Marie Peters
Chapter VII: "The Brotherhood Gone Viral: Reading Invisible Man on #blackouttuesday"
Margarita M. Castromán Soto
Chapter VIII: "To Protect and Serve: Medieval Knights, the Police, and Sexual Violence"
Carissa M. Harris
Chapter IX: Fieldwork, Flowers, and the Force: A Perspective on Gender Expression, Profession, Race, and Policing"
Élan R. Alford
Chapter X: "The Toll of Devaluing Black People's Humanity Is to Live in a Nation that Will Feel Like Home to No One"
Yvonne Fulmore
Chapter XI: "Apocalypse Rot"
Ewuare Osayande
Chapter XII: "For B.R.E.A.T.H.E" and ". . . To you"
Everett Hoagland
Chapter XIII: "The New Rent Party Or, in the Words of Sonia Sanchez, 'How Does One Scream in Thunder?' Asking for a Friend."
Quincy Scott Jones
Chapter XIV: "opus 132 free"
Yolanda Wisher
Chapter XV: "Worldstar's Poetica"
Edythe Rodriguez
About the author
Edited by Joyce A. Joyce - Contributions by Élan R. Alford; Melba Joyce Boyd; Yvonne Fulmore; Walter R. Gholson III; Carissa M. Harris; Everett Hoagland; Quincy Scott Jones; Joyce A. Joyce; Ana-Maurine Lara; Wende Marshall; Ewuare Osayande; Donna Marie Pe
