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    Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
    Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
    Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
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    Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond

    By Marc Lamont Hill and Todd Brewster

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    Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews

    A New York Times Editor’s Choice

    Nautilus Award Winner

    “A worthy and necessary addition to the contemporary canon of civil rights literature.” —The New York Times

    From one of the leading voices on civil rights in America, a thoughtful and urgent analysis of recent headline-making police brutality cases and the systems and policies that enabled them.

    In this “thought-provoking and important” (Library Journal) analysis of state-sanctioned violence, Marc Lamont Hill carefully considers a string of high-profile deaths in America—Sandra Bland, Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, and others—and incidents of gross negligence by government, such as the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. He digs underneath these events to uncover patterns and policies of authority that allow some citizens become disempowered, disenfranchised, poor, uneducated, exploited, vulnerable, and disposable. To help us understand the plight of vulnerable communities, he examines the effects of unfettered capitalism, mass incarceration, and political power while urging us to consider a new world in which everyone has a chance to become somebody. Heralded as an essential text for our times, Marc Lamont Hill’s galvanizing work embodies the best traditions of scholarship, journalism, and storytelling to lift unheard voices and to address the necessary question, “how did we get here?"
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtria Books
    Release dateJul 26, 2016
    ISBN9781501124976
    Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
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    Marc Lamont Hill

    Marc Lamont Hill is currently the host of BET News and Black News Tonight and is the Steve Charles Chair in Media, Cities, and Solutions at Temple University. He is the founder and director of the People’s Education Center and the owner of Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee & Books in Philadelphia. He has authored or coauthored several books, including Nobody and We Still Here.

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    • 5/5
      Hill's book is a collection of essays focused on the people whose names have become party of a litany of violence against African-Americans in recent years: Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Sandra Bland, Freddie Gray, Trayvon Martin and others.  These people who have been made a Nobody in contemporary America are given their full human dignity in Hill's account of their lives, as well as the incidents that brought their demise and their aftermath.  But Hill goes beyond the headlines and uses these incidents as a window into the greater societal and political trends that undergird them: "broken windows" policing, plea bargains denying people accused of crimes of their day in court and the incredible power this gives prosecutors, "Stand Your Ground" laws and the arming of America,  mass incarceration, and the neoliberal ideal of running the government "like a business" that leads to the exploitation and disasters of places like Flint, Michigan.  This is a powerful book and important book and one I highly recommend that everyone concerned about the future of our nation reads.Favorite Passages:"The case for broken-windows policing is compelling because it lightly dipped in truth.  Yet while there is a correlation between disorder (social and physical) and crime, research shows that this relationship is not causal.  Simply put, there is no evidence that disorder directly promotes crime.  What the evidence does suggest, however, is that the two are linked to the same larger problem: poverty.  High levels of unemployment, lack of social resources, and concentrated areas of low income are all root cause of both high crime and disorder.  As such, crime would be more effectively redressed by investing economically in neighborhoods rather than targeting them for heightened arrests." - p. 44"Unfortunately, since modern American society, as with all things in the current neoliberal moment, prioritize privatization and individualism, the very notion of the public has become disposable.  As the current criminal-justice process shows, no longer is there a collective interest in affirming the value of the public good, even rhetorically, through the processes of transparency, honesty, or fairness.  No longer is there a commitment to monitoring and evaluating public officials, in this case prosecutors, to certify that justice prevails.  Instead we have entered a moment in which all things public have been demonized withing out social imagination: public schools, public assistance, public transportation, public housing, public options, and public defenders.  In place of a rich democratic conception of "the public" is a market-driven logic that privileges economic efficiency and individual success over collective justice." - p. 78-79"There is plenty of reason to debate the central premise of privatization - that business always does it better - but we don't have to go there to find this idea objectionable.  In the way that privatization separates government responsibilities from democratic accountability, the notion is flawed from its very conception.  Businesses are not made function for the public good.  The are made to function for the good of profit. There is nothing inherently evil in that.  In most cases, the profit motive will almost certainly lead to a more efficient and orderly execution of tasks.  But it does not necessarily lead to an equitable execution of tasks; indeed, it quite naturally resists and equitable execution of tasks. Furthermore, bu injecting moneymaking into the relationship between a citizen and the basic services of life - water, roads, electricity, and education - privatization distorts the social contract.  People need to know that the decisions of governments are being made with the common good as a priority.  Anything else is not government; it is commerce.  One only needs to look back at Michigan to see this idea manifested because the crisis in Flint, as Henry Giroux has written, is what happens when the State is 'remade in the image of the corporation.'"

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    • 3/5
      This book provides an earnest, if dated, examination of social problems that afflict the poor, people of color, and other U.S. minorities as things stood back in 2016. Issues include poor living conditions, police brutality, and mass incarceration. Author Marc Lamont Hill refers to “neoliberalism” as the source of these problems, but, unless I missed something, the author doesn’t really explain what this is or how it works. This book needs to be updated to reflect the George Floyd story and the oppressive designs of the Trump Administration.

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