A beautiful ghetto
By: Devin Allen
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9781608467594
Subjects: Inner cities; Race relations; Pictorial works; Black lives matter movement; Social conditions; African Americans; Demonstrations
Description: "On April 18, 2015, Baltimore erupted into mass protests in response to the brutal murder of Freddie Gray by police.  Devin Allen was there, and his iconic photos of the Baltimore Uprising became a viral sensation.  In these stunning photographs, Allen documents the uprising as he strives to capture the life of his city and the people who live there.  Each photo reveals the personality, beauty and spirit of Baltimore and its people, as his camera complicates popular ideas about the 'ghetto."--back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Freddie Gray's Baltimore  -- D. Watkins; title: The boisterous demand of Black Baltimore  -- Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor; title: The Freddie we never knew  -- Wes Moore; title: Critique, pictures, and progress: Devin Allen as social critic  -- Aaron Bryant; title: My Baltimore  -- Gail Allen-Kearney; title: Poverty is violence  -- Tariq Touré; title: A beautiful ghetto --; title: This burning house  -- Tariq Touré; title: Uprising --; title: April 27th -- Tariq Touré.