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This audiobook narrated by Joana Garcia reveals how
race shapes expectations about whose losses matter
In democracies, citizens must accept loss; we can't always be on the winning side. But in the United States, the fundamental civic capacity of being able to lose is not distributed equally. Propped up by white supremacy, whites (as a group) are accustomed to winning; they have generally been able to exercise political rule without having to accept sharing it. Black citizens, on the other hand, are expected to be political heroes whose civic suffering enables progress toward racial justice. In this book, Juliet Hooker, a leading thinker on democracy and race, argues that the two most important forces driving racial politics in the United States today are Black grief and white grievance. Black grief is exemplified by current protests against police violence—the latest in a tradition of violent death and subsequent public mourning spurring Black political mobilization. The potent politics of white grievance, meanwhile, which is also not new, imagines the U.S. as a white country under siege.
Drawing on African American political thought, Hooker examines key moments in U.S. racial politics that illuminate the problem of loss in democracy. She connects today's Black Lives Matter protests to the use of lynching photographs to arouse public outrage over post–Reconstruction era racial terror, and she discusses Emmett Till's funeral as a catalyst for the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. She also traces the political weaponization of white victimhood during the Obama and Trump presidencies. Calling for an expansion of Black and white political imaginations, Hooker argues that both must learn to sit with loss, for different reasons and to different ends.
Audiobook details
GenrePsychology, Politics and Government
Length9 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byJoana Garcia
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateOct 3, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Credit, Dedication
7Interlude 3, Chapter 3 , Representing Loss between Fact and Affect
2Introduction , What Is Political Loss
8Chapter 3 - Continued
3Interlude 1, Chapter 1, White Grievance and Anticipatory Loss
9Interlude 4, Chapter 4 , Maternal Grief and Black Politics
4Chapter 1 - Continued
10Chapter 4 - Continued
5Chapter 2 - Black Protest and Democratic Sacrifice
11Interlude 5, Conclusion , Reckoning with Democratic Debts
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6Chapter 2 - Continued
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