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Black Arms to Hold You Up

By Ben Passmore, Ben Passmore

Black Arms to Hold You Up

By Ben Passmore, Ben Passmore

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A lively graphic history of Black life in America, from the award-winning political cartoonist Ben Passmore It's the summer of 2020, and downtown Philly is up in flames. "You're not out in the streets with everyone else?" Ronnie asks his ambivalent son, Ben, shambling in with arms full of used books: the works of Malcom X, Robert F. Williams, Assata and Sanyika Shakur, among others. "Black liberation is your fight, too." So begins Black Arms to Hold You Up, a boisterous, darkly funny, and sobering march through Black militant history. From Robert Charles's shootout with the police in 1900, to the Black Power movement in the 1960s, to the Los Angeles and George Floyd uprisings of the 1990s and the aughts, readers will tumble through more than a century of armed resistance against the racist state alongside Ben-and meet firsthand the mothers and fathers of the movement, whose stories were as tragic as they were heroic. What, after so many decades lost to state violence, is there left to fight for? Deeply researched, vibrantly drawn, and bracingly introspective, Black Arms to Hold You Up dares to find the answer.
Product details
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
2026-02-05
Publication Date:
2026-02-05
Publisher:
Random House UK Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1787333566
ISBN13:
9781787333567
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
1226 g
Height:
224 cm
Width:
287 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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