Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements Woodly Deva R.
Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements Woodly Deva R. Examining the significance of the Movement for Black Lives, Reckoning uncovers a broadly applicable…
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Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements Woodly Deva R.
Examining the significance of the Movement for Black Lives, Reckoning uncovers a broadly applicable argument for the democratic necessity of social movements.Barack Obama famously said that the purpose of social movements is to get a seat at the table. Drawing from on-the-ground interviews with activists in the movement, Woodly analyzes the emergence of the M4BL, its organizational structure and culture, and its strategies and tactics. However, as Deva Woodly argues in Reckoning - a sweeping account of the meaning and purpose of the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) - the value of such movements is something much more profound: they are necessary for the health and survival of democracy.
She also shows how a unique political philosophy - Radical Black Feminist Pragmatism - served as an intellectual foundation of the
Black and All Lives Matter.