Why Didn't We Riot?: A Black Man in Trumpland (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781635420289)

In these impassioned, powerful essays, an award-winning journalist deals forthrightly with what it means to be Black in an America that still supports Trump.

South Carolina-based journalist Issac J. Bailey reflects on a wide range of complex, divisive topics--from police brutality and Confederate symbols to respectability politics and white discomfort--which have taken on a fresh urgency with the protest movement sparked by George Floyd's killing. Bailey has been honing his views on these issues for the past quarter of a century in his professional and private life, which included an eighteen-year stint as a member of a mostly white Evangelical Christian church.

Why Didn't We Riot? speaks to and for the millions of Black and Brown people throughout the United States who were effectively pushed back to the back of the bus in the Trump era by a media that prioritized the concerns and feelings of the white working class and an administration that made white supremacists giddy, and explains why the country's fate in 2020 and beyond is largely in their hands. It will be an invaluable resource for the everyday reader, as well as political analysts, college professors and students, and political consultants and campaigns vying for high office.

Author: Issac J. Bailey
ISBN-10: 1635420288
ISBN-13: 9781635420289
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Language: English
Published: 10/06/2020
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Shelf Awareness 10/13/2020
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2020
Publishers Weekly 08/31/2020
Foreword 08/26/2020
Library Journal 11/01/2020 pg. 99
Choice 07/01/2021