Wake Up: Black Women on the Future of Democracy - Keisha N. Blain 2024 Release
Keisha N. Blain's exhilarating new anthology Wake Up America brings together powerful voices of Black women leaders and activists to outline a visionary path forward in the ongoing fight for social justice and equity. With incisive essays by trailblazers like Alicia Garza, Laphonza Butler, Sheila Jackson Lee, and Nina Turner, this collection speaks directly to the core concerns of womanist scholarship – claiming civil and human rights, building economic and political power structures that support Black communities, and combating racism and oppression in all its insidious forms.
Blain has curated a dialogue that highlights both the diversity and unity of Black women’s perspectives on movements like Black Lives Matter, reproductive justice, prison abolition, disability rights, and the fight for reparations. The authors draw on their wealth of experience organizing communities and working within and outside political systems to provide tangible takeaways and policy recommendations.
At this urgent juncture of civil rights history where Fannie Lou Hamer’s call to “wake up” rings louder than ever, Blain’s anthology equips womanist scholars with a fount of wisdom and strategy from today’s leading Black women thinkers and activists carrying on Hamer’s legacy. The policy blueprints and grassroots insights within will undoubtedly shape scholarship examining the possible paths toward greater justice and democracy.
Future of Democracy
Price: $26.96
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: February 13, 2024
Pages: 256