Sách - His Name Is George Floyd - WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN NON-FICTI by Toluse Olorunnipa (UK edition, paperback) tại Pretty Cosmetics

Giới thiệu Sách - His Name Is George Floyd - WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN NON-FICTI by Toluse Olorunnipa (UK edition, paperback) tại Pretty Cosmetics

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Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd

Origin: United Kingdom (Imported)

ISBN 13: 9781529176414

Condition: Brandnew

Binding: paperback

Pages: 544

Dimensons: 128 x 198 x 37 | 374 (gram)

*WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN NON-FICTION*
*Finalist for the National Book Award for Non-fiction*

''His Name Is George Floyd is essential for our times.'' Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist

''An intimate, unvarnished and scrupulous account of his life...brilliantly revealing.'' NEW YORK TIMES

You know how he d. This is how he lived.

Who was George Floyd? What did he hope for? What was life like for him? And why has his been the catalyst for such a powerful global response?

The murder of George Floyd sparked a summer of activism and unrest all over the world in 2020, from Shetland to São Paolo, as people marched under the Black Lives Matter banner, demanding an end to racial injustice. But behind a face that would be graffitied onto countless murals, and a name that has become synonymous with civil rights, there is the reality of one man''s stolen life.

In His Name is George Floyd we meet the kind young boy who talked his friends out of beating up a skinny kid from another neighbourhood and then befriended him on the walk home. Big Floyd the high school American football player who ignored his coach''s pleas to be more aggressive and felt queasy at the sight of blood. The man who fell victim to an opioid epidemic we are only just beginning to understand. The sensitive son and loving father, constantly in search of a better life in a society determined to write him off based on things he had no control over: where he grew up, the size of his body and the colour of his skin.

Drawing upon hundreds of interviews with friends and family members, His Name Is George Floyd reveals the myriad ways that structural racism shaped Floyd''s life and death - from his forebears'' roots in slavery to an underfunded education, the overpolicing of his community and the devastating snare of the prison system. By offering us an intimate portrait of this one, emblematic life, Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa deliver a powerful and moving exploration of how a man who simply wanted to breathe ended up touching the world.

Giá sản phẩm trên Tiki đã bao gồm thuế theo luật hiện hành. Bên cạnh đó, tuỳ vào loại sản phẩm, hình thức và địa chỉ giao hàng mà có thể phát sinh thêm chi phí khác như phí vận chuyển, phụ phí hàng cồng kềnh, thuế nhập khẩu (đối với đơn hàng giao từ nước ngoài có giá trị trên 1 triệu đồng).....