His Name Is George Floyd One man's life and the struggle for racial justice
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Transworld Publ. Ltd UK
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
25.05.2023
Verlag
Transworld Publ. Ltd UKSeitenzahl
526
Maße (L/B/H)
19,7/13,1/4 cm
Gewicht
372 g
Farbe
Schwarz / Wollweiß
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-5291-7641-4
You know how he died. This is how he lived.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction
Finalist for the National Book Award for Non-fiction
'An intimate, unvarnished and scrupulous account of his life...brilliantly revealing.' NEW YORK TIMES
Who was George Floyd? What did he hope for? And how did society set him up for struggle, in countless ways, before he was ever murdered?
In His Name is George Floyd we meet the kind young boy who talked his friends out of beating up a skinny kid from another neighbourhood and then befriended him on the walk home. Big Floyd the high school American football player who ignored his coach's pleas to be more aggressive and felt queasy at the sight of blood. The man who fell victim to an opioid epidemic we are only just beginning to understand. The sensitive son and loving father, constantly in search of a better life in a society determined to write him off based on things he had no control over: where he grew up, the size of his body and the colour of his skin.
Drawing upon hundreds of interviews with friends and family members, His Name Is George Floyd reveals the myriad ways that structural racism shaped Floyd's life and death - from his forebears' roots in slavery to an underfunded education, the overpolicing of his community and the devastating snare of the prison system. By offering us an intimate portrait of this one, emblematic life, Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa deliver a powerful and moving exploration of how a man who simply wanted to breathe ended up touching the world.
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