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The Ferguson Report: An Erasure

The Ferguson Report: An Erasure

Sealey, Nicole

Hardcover

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $29.00

ISBN10: 0593535995
ISBN13: 9780593535998
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Aug 15 2023
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 7.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A meditation on our times, cast through a reconsideration of the Justice Department's investigation of the Ferguson Police Department

In August 2014, Michael Brown--a young, unarmed Black man--was shot to death by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. What followed was a period of protests and turmoil, culminating in an extensive report that was filed by the Department of Justice detailing biased policing and court practices in the city. It is a document that exposes the racist policies and procedures that have become commonplace--from disproportionate arrest rates, to flagrant violence directed at the Black community. It is a report that remains as disheartening as it is damning.

Now, award-winning poet Nicole Sealey revisits the investigation in a book that redacts the report, an act of erasure that reimagines the original text as it strips it away. While the full document is visible in the background--weighing heavily on the language Sealey has preserved--it gives shape and disturbing context to what remains.

Illuminating what it means to live in this frightening age, and what it means to bear witness, The Ferguson Report: An Erasure is an engrossing meditation on one of the most important texts of our time.

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