What lessons can we learn, thousands of miles away, from the most recent black
American community protests? The book Black Lives Matter: The Renewal of BlackAmerican Revolt builds a deep materialist analysis of the causes and consequencesof institutional racism, taking police violence as an example. ---- What lessonscan we learn, thousands of miles away, from the most recent black Americancommunity protests ? The book Black Lives Matter: The Renewal of Black AmericanRevolt presents us with an avalanche of historical data and facts, with which thescientist and social activist Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor builds a deep materialistanalysis of the causes and consequences of institutional racism, taking such aspolice brutality.In the first part of his exhibition, Taylor presents the ideological elementsthat prevent those affected by institutional racism from organizing to confrontit, as well as the strategies of the State to weaken the movements that point tothe systemic nature of racism. . From making the dominated responsible for theirown domination to allowing black people access to positions of power, severalstrategies put in place to avoid black insurrection are deciphered.The fight against racism is not an end but a meansBy recovering the different American movements that have materially analyzedinstitutional racism, but also other dominations such as patriarchy andcapitalism, Taylor traces a genealogy of struggles that have shaken power and thesystem in the United States as a whole. and in which the Black Lives Mattermovement has its rightful place. The black anti-racist struggle is therefore notan end but a means to convey discontent and also create links with otherstruggles that can affect other dominated people such as precarious white people,Latinos, women , LGBTI people and, finally, all people who experience systemicdomination.The analysis of police violence serves as a backdrop to present one of the facesof this system; throughout the reading one can see how he begins to crumble underthe weight of his own vices and miseries. Reading Taylor can also be used toobserve ourselves in the mirror of American anti-racism, under a Marxist andfeminist prism, and gives avenues for the formation of a front that includesanti-racist and anti-patriarchal struggles to fundamentally part of the struggleagainst capitalism.Black Lives Matters: the revival of the black American revolt has just beenpublished in a new edition, corrected and enlarged, by Agone. A new preface bySylvie Laurent sets the context specific to the author and the production of thisbook, while a new postscript by Taylor updates the panorama of the movement'sstruggle. A recommended work to better understand institutional racism, in theUnited States... and not only.Manual (UCL Grenoble)l Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Black Lives Matter. The revival of the black Americanrevolt, Agone, 2022, 416 pages, 13 euros.https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-K-Y-Taylor-Black-Lives-Matter-le-renouveau-de-la-revolte-noire-americaine_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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