num_pages: 212
description: On the Other Side of Freedom reveals the mind and motivations of a young man who has risen to the fore of millennial activism through study discipline and conviction. His belief in a world that can be made better one act at a time powers his narratives and opens up a view on the costs consequences and rewards of leading a movement.--Henry Louis Gates Jr.From the internationally recognized civil rights activist/organizer and host of the podcast Pod Save the People a meditation on resistance justice and freedom and an intimate portrait of a movement from the front lines.In August of 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 out the intellectual pragmatic 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.Honest courageous and imaginative On the Other Side of Freedom 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 On the Other Side of Freedom is a visionary's call to take responsibility for imagining and then building the world we want to live in.
language: English
title: On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
publisher: Viking