{"product_id":"9781642598759","title":"After Life","description":"Author: Rhae Lynn Barnes\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781642598759\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Haymarket Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 07 Feb 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 360\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter Lifeis a collective history of how Americans experienced, navigated, commemorated, and ignored mass death and loss during the global COVID-19 pandemic, mass uprisings for racial justice, and the near presidential coup in 2021 following the 2020 election.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired by the writers who documented American life during the Great Depression and World War II for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the editors asked twenty-first-century historians and legal experts to focus on the parallels, convergences, and differences between the exceptional \"long 2020\", while it unfolds, and earlier eras in U.S. History.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction explains how COVID-19 and America's long history of inequality, combined with a corrupt and unconcerned federal government, produced one of the darkest times in our nation's history. Discussing the rise of the COVID-19 death toll in the United States, eventually exceeding the 1918 flu, the AIDS epidemic, and the Civil War, it ties public health, immigration, white supremacy, elections history, and epidemics together, and provides a short history of the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 and the beginnings of a Third Reconstruction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003edocuments how Americans have dealt with grief, pain, and loss, both individually and communally, and how we endure and thrive. The title is an affirmation that even in our suspended half-living during lockdowns and quarantines, we are a nation of survivors-with an unprecedented chance to rebuild society in a more equitable way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors include: Gwendolyn Hall, Heather Ann Thompson, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Keith Ellison, Keri Leigh Merritt, Martha Hodes, Mary Kathryn Nagle, Mary L. Dudziak, Monica Muoz Martinez, Peniel E. Joseph, Philip J. Deloria, Rhae Lynn Barnes, Robert L. Tsai, Robin D. G. Kelley, Scott Poulson-Bryant, Stephen Berry, Tera W. Hunter, Ula Y. Taylor, and, Yohuru Williams.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46836306870430,"sku":"ADS-9781642598759","price":79.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781642598759.jpg?v=1778737596","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781642598759","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}