My People!
We are now just four days away from the official launch of my new book, *Strung Up: How White America Learned to Lynch Black Children. *It’s been a long time coming. The book has already gotten rave reviews from * Publisher’s Weekly (a starred review) *and
Some others:
“Strung Up is an argumentative masterpiece.”** —David Levering Lewis, author of the two-volume Pulitzer Prize–winning **W. E. B. Du Bois
“Strung Up is an unflinching and visionary work that recovers the central role of children in the making of racial violence.” —Michelle Alexander, author of** The New Jim Crow**
“Strung Up is one of the boldest, most searingly honest examinations of racial terror and trauma ever put to paper.” —Tim Wise, author of** White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son**
“Penned by one of America’s most important and necessary scholars, this is not just a book about history, lynching, or even Black children.” **—Michael Harriot, ****New York Times ****best-selling author of **Black AF History
“Strung Up is a marvel of a book. Stacey Patton succeeds in blending history, psychology, and sociology into a brilliant excavation of systemic violence.” —Kimberlé Crenshaw, executive director, African American Policy Forum, and professor of law at Columbia University and UCLA
“Strung Up is a monumental text. . . . This book is beautifully written, persuasively argued, and desperately needed.” —Marc Lamont Hill, Presidential Professor of Urban Education and Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies, City University of New York Graduate Center
“Stacey Patton lays bare—with searing text and haunting images—the unspoken script behind ‘the talk’ Black parents give their children about surviving a world where driving or walking while Black still carries danger. . . . This book is essential reading—an unflinching examination of the roots of racialized harm and the urgent need to confront it.” **—Mary Frances Berry, author of **History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times
“A heart-wrenching but necessary examination of how children have been and are used as vehicles for indoctrination into this country’s long-standing tradition of white supremacy.” —Alicia Garza, cofounder, Black Lives Matter Global Network
“Strung Up forces a reckoning with one of the most devastating truths in American history: Racial violence has never been about punishment but rather it was and is a weapon of domination, an object lesson on power and submission, especially for the young.”** —Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of African American studies and public affairs, Princeton University**
Before the book drops this Tuesday and I hit the road over the coming months, I want to spend some time with folks here on Substack who have supported my writing and helped provide resources for HBCU journalism students. That said, I’m gonna host a private virtual reading and Q&A **exclusively for my paid Substack subscribers and founding members **this Sunday evening at 4 pm, EST.
You’ll get to hear selections from the book. I’ll talk about how this book came to be, and open up the floor for your questions and deeper interactive discussion. You’ll need to register in advance through the form below.
**REGISTER HERE: **https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9zDcn4ymM3PTAJBWk6DGIgooNzv9H1ZNn3njaCjg6r7jO7A/viewform
Once you register as a confirmed paid subscriber or founding member, you’ll receive the information you need to join the conversation this Sunday afternoon.
Come sit with me and learn some things.
See Y’all Sunday.
**Pre-order Strung Up here: **
https://bookshop.org/p/books/strung-up-how-white-america-learned-to-lynch-black-children-stacey-patton/10622d430a916d04?ean=9780807016206&listref=bookshop-org-best-sellers-of-the-week&next=t
Pre-order the audio version of Strung Up here:
https://www.audible.com/pd/Strung-Up-Audiobook/B0GFCN63M2?source_code=GO1PP30DTRIAL5470729262537&gclsrc=aw.ds&ds_rl=1261256&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=24081049810&gclid=CjwKCAjwrP3VBhBbEiwAnaqpQ8pPbaXchCfwzSPEHliAnTRHC8E02f52KP5imoJLsWY-bS9cGi3oHxoCPaUQAvD_BwE
