{"product_id":"making-a-killing-capitalism","title":"Making a Killing \/\/ Capitalism, Cops, and the War on Black Life (Pre-order, Jan 19 2027)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sweeping history of the African American struggle against police brutality, exposing how state violence underpins the capitalist economy and tracing the long resistance movement in pursuit of racial justice and freedom for all\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRekia Boyd, Timothy Thomas, Jonathan Sanders, Breonna Taylor, Jordan Neely, and Michael Brown were casualties of war. Whether we call it a war on crime, a war on militants, or a war on drugs, law enforcement at every level has made Black neighborhoods across the country into killing fields and open-air prisons, stripping vulnerable people of equal rights, freedom of movement, and even protection from torture. In a smoldering indictment, Robin D. G. Kelley excavates the deep history of this war through the lives of the victims and their communities, drawing a direct line from today’s fatalities to the “blood at the root”—the racial terror at the heart of America’s system of exploitation and wealth accumulation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is a system, Kelley shows, that depends on racial and economic inequality and is maintained through not only tools of force but also tools of wealth extraction, from lynch law in Georgia to segregated housing in St. Louis to gentrification, predatory lending, civil forfeiture, and even today’s militarization of ICE.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt the same time, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking a Killing\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a history of the counterwar, the legacy of collective Black resistance—the movements, tactics, thinkers, and leaders—that has long been a catalyst for change and the tip of the spear in a broader fight against rising fascism. Demanding not only justice for Black victims but also vast and visionary social transformation, these movements, from Reconstruction to the present day, hold out the possibility that we may lay to rest the America we know so that a new world may be born.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRobin D. G. Kelley\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the award-winning biography \u003ci\u003eThelonious Monk\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRace Rebels\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFreedom Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e, and numerous other acclaimed books on radical social movements, labor, music, Black intellectuals, and the African diaspora. His essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHammer \u0026amp; Hope\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other publications. A Guggenheim fellow and Freedom Scholar recipient, Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at the University of California, Los Angeles.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: Metropolitan Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublish Date: January 19, 2027\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 512\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eType: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEAN\/UPC: 9781250803078\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBISAC Categories: Politics, History\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Robin D. G. Kelley","offers":[{"title":"(Pre-order, Jan 19 2027) Hardcover","offer_id":48292074127595,"sku":"9781250803078","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0253\/4014\/9820\/files\/covercomingsoon_cdfff711-6207-45c3-a0b2-5d0e98ab8d0b.png?v=1757202541","url":"https:\/\/rep.club\/products\/making-a-killing-capitalism","provider":"Reparations Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}