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1 online resource (1 audio file (5hr., 47 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Elle Dowd. |
| Summary |
For years Elle Dowd considered herself an advocate for justice, but her well-meaning support always took a back burner to what Martin Luther King Jr. called the tension-free, ordered "negative peace" of white moderates. Then Michael Brown, a Black man, was murdered by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, and the subsequent Uprising changed everything. In Baptized in Tear Gas, minister and activist Elle Dowd tells the gripping story of her transformation into an Assata Shakur-reading, courthouse-occupying abolitionist with an arrest record, hungry for the revolution. Thanks to deep relationships with people in Ferguson and St. Louis, and to experiencing a fraction of the system for herself-including the fear of rubber bullets, the shock of sound cannons, and running from tear gas-Dowd fully committed to the work of anti-racism and abolition. Now she wants to help other white allies do the same. Like in baptism, this transformation requires parts of us to die: our lack of power analysis, our commitment to white niceness, our tone policing, our respectability politics-all of those impulses we have been socialized by since birth must die so that something new can be resurrected in our lives and in the world. The uprising in Ferguson changed Dowd, and through it, God made her into something new. Now it's our turn. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Dowd, Elle -- Political and social views.
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Protest movements -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
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Police shootings -- Missouri -- Ferguson.
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Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Missouri -- Ferguson.
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African Americans -- Violence against.
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Anti-racism -- United States -- 21st century.
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United States -- Race relations -- 21st century.
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Clergy -- United States -- Biography.
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Change (Psychology) -- Religious aspects.
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| Added Author |
Blackmon, Traci D., writer of foreword
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781545919156 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1545919151 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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MWT14328318 |
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