This Is Not For You : An Activist's Journey of Resistance and Resilience /

"This is Not For You: An Activist's Journey of Resistance and Resilience is the memoir of activist and photographer Richard Brown, an eighty-year-old Black Portlander who has worked to bridge the divide between police and the Black community. Originally from Harlem, Brown served in the Air...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Brown, Richard J., 1939- (Author), Benson, Brian, 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Brown, Richard J., > 1939-
United States. > Air Force.
United States. > Air Force > Airmen > Biography.
United States. > Air Force > African Americans > Biography.
Police-community relations.
Photographers.
Community policing.
Armed Forces > Airmen.
Armed Forces > African Americans.
African American political activists.
African American photographers.
Police communautaire > Oregon > Portland > Histoire.
Relations police-collectivite > Oregon > Portland > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Photographes noirs americains > Oregon > Portland > Biographies.
Photographes > Oregon > Portland > Biographies.
Activistes noirs americains > Oregon > Portland > Biographies.
Community policing > Oregon > Portland > History.
Police-community relations > Oregon > Portland > History > 21st century.
African American photographers > Oregon > Portland > Biography.
Photographers > Oregon > Portland > Biography.
Political activists > Oregon > Portland > Biography.
African American political activists > Oregon > Portland > Biography.
Oregon > Portland.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
History.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:"This is Not For You: An Activist's Journey of Resistance and Resilience is the memoir of activist and photographer Richard Brown, an eighty-year-old Black Portlander who has worked to bridge the divide between police and the Black community. Originally from Harlem, Brown served in the Air Force for twenty years before landing in Portland. As he recalls his childhood in the 1940s, his radicalization in the newly desegregated Air Force, and his decades of activism in one of America's whitest cities, he questions whether he's got the strength to continue doing this work, and he wonders who, if anyone, will take his place"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (258 pages): illustrations, portraits
ISBN:9780870713057

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