The Panthers Can't Save Us Now

Debating Left Politics and Black Lives Matter

Cedric G. Johnson

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Verso Books
03 May 2022

Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies; Police & security services

Series: Jacobin

In the wake of the mass protests over the police murder of George Floyd, nearly every major consumer brand proclaimed their commitments to antiracism, often with new ad campaigns to match their Tweets. Despite the historic scale of protests and ruling class approval, the most substantive reforms advanced by Black Lives Matter remained out of reach. Still less was achieved around policies that might help the most dispossessed and precarious Americans. Why has anti-racism been such a powerful source of mobilization but such a poor means of building political opposition capable of winning big reforms?

Writing against the grain of popular left sentiments, Johnson cautions against the revival of ethnic politics. Instead, he calls for broad-based left politics as the only viable means for ending the twin crises of racial inequality and police violence. Redistribution, public goods, and multi-ethnic working-class solidarity are the only viable response to the horrors of police violence and mass incarceration. It just so happens that fighting the conditions that make crime and violence inevitable is also the means by which we can build a working-class majority and a more equal and peaceful nation.

By: Cedric G. Johnson
Imprint: Verso Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 180g
ISBN: 9781839766305
ISBN 10: 1839766301
Series: Jacobin
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 03 May 2022
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Cedric Johnson is Associate Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His book, Revolutionaries to Race Leaders was named the 2008 W.E.B. DuBois Outstanding Book of the Year by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. His 2017 Catalyst essay, “The Panthers Can’t Save Us Now” was awarded the 2018 Daniel Singer Millenium Prize. In 2008, Johnson was named the Jon Garlock Labor Educator of the Year by the Rochester Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO. He previously served on the representative assembly for UIC United Faculty Local 6456.