{"id":1879092691033,"title":"On the Other Side of Freedom — McKesson '07","handle":"on-the-other-side-of-freedom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Deray McKesson, Class of 2007\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn August 2014, twenty-nine-year-old activist DeRay Mckesson stood with hundreds of others on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, to push a message of justice and accountability. These protests, and others like them in cities across the country, resulted in the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement. Now, in his first book, Mckesson lays down the intellectual, pragmatic, and political framework for a new liberation movement. Continuing a conversation about activism, resistance, and justice that embraces our nation’s complex history, he dissects how deliberate oppression persists, how racial injustice strips our lives of promise, and how technology has added a new dimension to mass action and social change. He argues that our best efforts to combat injustice have been stunted by the belief that racism’s wounds are history, and suggests that intellectual purity has curtailed optimistic realism. The book offers a new framework and language for understanding the nature of oppression. With it, we can begin charting a course to dismantle the obvious and subtle structures that limit freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHonest, courageous, and imaginative, \u003ci\u003eOn the Other Side of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e is a work brimming with hope. Drawing from his own experiences as an activist, organizer, educator, and public official, Mckesson exhorts all Americans to work to dismantle the legacy of racism and to imagine the best of what is possible. Honoring the voices of a new generation of activists, \u003ci\u003eOn the Other Side of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e is a visionary’s call to take responsibility for imagining, and then building, the world we want to live in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e","published_at":"2023-08-14T16:31:05-04:00","created_at":"2018-11-26T11:02:30-05:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Non-Fiction"],"price":1700,"price_min":1700,"price_max":1700,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1700,"compare_at_price_min":1700,"compare_at_price_max":1700,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":18484845903961,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA241-McKesson","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"On the Other Side of Freedom — McKesson '07","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1700,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1700,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780525560579","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba241-mckesson-onthe.jpg?v=1613770603"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba241-mckesson-onthe.jpg?v=1613770603","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Book cover of On the Other Side of Freedom by Deray McKesson 2007","id":7492123426905,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba241-mckesson-onthe.jpg?v=1613770603"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba241-mckesson-onthe.jpg?v=1613770603","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Deray McKesson, Class of 2007\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn August 2014, twenty-nine-year-old activist DeRay Mckesson stood with hundreds of others on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, to push a message of justice and accountability. These protests, and others like them in cities across the country, resulted in the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement. Now, in his first book, Mckesson lays down the intellectual, pragmatic, and political framework for a new liberation movement. Continuing a conversation about activism, resistance, and justice that embraces our nation’s complex history, he dissects how deliberate oppression persists, how racial injustice strips our lives of promise, and how technology has added a new dimension to mass action and social change. He argues that our best efforts to combat injustice have been stunted by the belief that racism’s wounds are history, and suggests that intellectual purity has curtailed optimistic realism. The book offers a new framework and language for understanding the nature of oppression. With it, we can begin charting a course to dismantle the obvious and subtle structures that limit freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHonest, courageous, and imaginative, \u003ci\u003eOn the Other Side of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e is a work brimming with hope. Drawing from his own experiences as an activist, organizer, educator, and public official, Mckesson exhorts all Americans to work to dismantle the legacy of racism and to imagine the best of what is possible. Honoring the voices of a new generation of activists, \u003ci\u003eOn the Other Side of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e is a visionary’s call to take responsibility for imagining, and then building, the world we want to live in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e"}