Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond Audiobook (Free)

Foreword written and browse by Todd Brewster

Protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and across the United States following death of Michael Dark brown revealed something much deeper than a passionate screen of age-old racial frustrations; they unveiled a public chasm that is growing for years, as America has consistently and intentionally refused significant sections of its population access to full freedom and wealth.

In Nobody, scholar and journalist Marc Lamont Hill presents a robust and about Nobody: Casualties of America’s Battle over the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond thought-provoking analysis of race and class by examining an evergrowing crisis in the us: the existence of several citizens who are made susceptible, exploitable, and disposable through the machinery of unregulated capitalism, public policy, and cultural practice. These are the people regarded as “Nobody” in modern America. Through on-the-ground reporting and careful research, Hill shows how this No one class has emerged over time and how forces in the us have worked to preserve and exploit it in ways that are both humiliating and dangerous.

To create his case, Hill carefully reconsiders the details of tragic events like the deaths of Michael Dark brown, Sandra Bland, and Freddie Grey, and the drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan. He delves deeply right into a host of alarming developments including mass incarceration, excessively aggressive policing, broken courtroom systems, shrinking work markets, as well as the privatization of open public resources, showing again and again the methods the current system was created to aggravate the plight of the vulnerable.

Timely and eloquent, Nobody is an enthusiastic observation of the challenges and contradictions of American democracy, a must-read for anyone wanting to better understand the race and class conditions that continue steadily to leave their tag in our country today.