After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America by Barnes, Rhae Lynn

After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781642598759)

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After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America by Barnes, Rhae Lynn

After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America

$45.00
After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America by Barnes, Rhae Lynn

After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America

$45.00
Format: Hardcover
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After Life is a collective history of how Americans experienced, navigated, commemorated, and ignored mass death and loss during the global COVID-19 pandemic, mass uprisings for racial justice, and the near presidential coup in 2021 following the 2020 election. Inspired by the writers who documented American life during the Great Depression and World War II for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the editors asked twenty-first-century historians and legal experts to focus on the parallels, convergences, and differences between the exceptional "long 2020", while it unfolds, and earlier eras in U.S. History.

Providing context for the entire volume, After Life's Introduction explains how COVID-19 and America's long history of inequality, combined with a corrupt and unconcerned federal government, produced one of the darkest times in our nation's history. Discussing the rise of the COVID-19 death toll in the United States, eventually exceeding the 1918 flu, the AIDS epidemic, and the Civil War, it ties public health, immigration, white supremacy, elections history, and epidemics together, and provides a short history of the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 and the beginnings of a Third Reconstruction.

After Life documents how Americans have dealt with grief, pain, and loss, both individually and communally, and how we endure and thrive. The title is an affirmation that even in our suspended half-living during lockdowns and quarantines, we are a nation of survivors-with an unprecedented chance to rebuild society in a more equitable way.

Author: Rhae Lynn Barnes
ISBN-10: 1642598755
ISBN-13: 9781642598759
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2022
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.94d

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Booklist 09/15/2022 pg. 4
By Rhae Lynn Barnes
By Rhae Lynn Barnes
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Rhae Lynn Barnes is an Assistant Professor at Princeton University and the Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. She was the 2020 President of the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography. Barnes is the author of the forthcoming book Darkology: When the American Dream Wore Blackface.

Keri Leigh Merritt is a historian, writer, and activist based in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the author of Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South, and the co-editor of Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power.

Yohuru Williams Distinguished University Chair and Professor of History, and founding director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul. He is the author of Black Politics/White Power: Civil Rights Black Power and Black Panthers in New Haven, Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement, and Teaching Beyond the Textbook: Six Investigative Strategies.

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