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10/26: Dixie Be Damned @ The Base, Brooklyn

Posted on October 16th, 2015 in Events

This past year we have witnessed an explosion of activity in response to the ceaseless violence against Black and Brown people by the hands of the police, white vigilantes, and the prison system. We are living the legacy of hundreds of years of colonialism and slavery, but also are part of an inspiring counter-history of revolt against these forces.

Cities have always taken the shape of social containers threatening to explode, but when it inevitably goes down who determines how those stories are represented and transmitted?

Authors Neal Shirley and Saralee Stafford will be reading from their new book Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South, with a specific focus on issues of legitimacy, identity, and control in urban rebellions from Atlanta and Tampa in the 1960s to Ferguson and Baltimore today.

Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1663325990620831/

Learn more about the book: http://www.akpress.org/dixie-be-damned.html