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A meditation on our troubling times, cast through a reconsideration of the Department of Justice's report on Ferguson, Missouri In August 2014, Michael Brown--a young, unarmed black man--was shot to death by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. What followed was a period of protests and turmoil, culminating in an extensive report that was filed by the Department of Justice detailing biased policing and court practices in the city. It is a document that exposes the racist policies and practices that have become commonplace--from disproportionate arrest rates, to flagrant violence directed at the Black community. It is a report that remains as disheartening as it is damning. Now, acclaimed poet Nicole Sealey revisits the investigation in a book that redacts the report, an act of erasure that reimagines the original text as it strips it away. While the full document is visible in the background--weighing heavily on the language Sealey has preserved--it gives shape and disturbing context to what remains. Illuminating what it means to live in this frightening age, and what it means to bear witness, The Ferguson Report: An Erasure is an engrossing meditation on one of the most important texts of modern time.
- Format: Hardcover
- Author: Sealey, Nicole
- ISBN: 9780593535998
- Condition: New
- Dimensions: 9.13 x 0.28
- Number Of Pages: 96
- Publication Year: 2023
Language:
English