Marc Lamont Hill
Author of Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
About the Author
Marc Lamont Hill was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 17, 1978. He is an academic, journalist, and host of BET News, as well as a political commentator. He attended Morehouse College his freshman year, and finished at Temple University, graduating with a B. S. in education and Spanish show more (2000). He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. His work in education includes Professor of Urban Education and American studies at Temple University, Associate Professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and Distinguished Professor of African American Studies at Morehouse College. His career in journalism includes working for Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, and Court TV. He has worked as a host for Our World with Black Enterprise and HuffPost Live. He is the author of several books, Media, Learning, and Sites of Possibility (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies); Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity; The Classroom and The Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America; and his bestseller, Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience (2021) — Contributor — 221 copies
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this was, theoretically, about how technology has changed the way we see and fight for racial justice, and i do see their point, for sure, but this felt like less about that specifically and more just about recent history and what the movement for racial justice has looked like in recent years.
still, super interesting.… (more)