Seen and Unseen, Marc Lamont Hill
Seen and Unseen, Marc Lamont Hill
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Seen and Unseen
Technology, Social Media, and the Fight for Racial Justice

Author: Marc Lamont Hill, Todd Brewster

Narrator: Marc Lamont Hill, Todd Brewster

Unabridged: 6 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/03/2022

Synopsis

A riveting exploration of how visual media has shifted the narrative on race and reignited the push towards justice by the author of the “worthy and necessary” (The New York Times) Nobody Marc Lamont Hill and the bestselling author and acclaimed journalist Todd Brewster.

With his signature “clear and courageous” (Cornel West) voice Marc Lamont Hill and New York Times bestselling author Todd Brewster weave four recent pivotal moments in America’s racial divide into their disturbing historical context—starting with the killing of George Floyd. Seen and Unseen reveals the connections between our current news headlines and social media feeds and the country’s long struggle against racism.

Drawing on the powerful role of technology as a driver of history, identity, and racial consciousness, Seen and Unseen asks why, after so much video confirmation of police violence on people of color, it took the footage of George Floyd to trigger an overwhelming response of sympathy and outrage.

In the vein of The New Jim Crow and Caste, Seen and Unseen incisively explores what connects our moment to the history of race in America but also what makes today different from the civil rights movements of the past and what it will ultimately take to push social justice forward.

About Marc Lamont Hill

Marc Lamont Hill is currently the host of BET News and Black News Tonight and is the Steve Charles Chair in Media, Cities, and Solutions at Temple University. He is the founder and director of the People’s Education Center and the owner of Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee & Books in Philadelphia. He has authored or coauthored several books, including Nobody and We Still Here.

About Todd Brewster

Todd Brewster is a veteran journalist and historian who has worked as an editor for Time and Life and as a senior producer for ABC News. He is the coauthor, with Peter Jennings, of the #1 New York Times bestselling book, The Century, which spent nearly a year on the bestseller list, the author of the acclaimed Lincoln’s Gamble, and coauthor, with Marc Lamont Hill, of Seen and Unseen; Technology, Social Media, and the Fight for Racial Justice. Brewster was the founding director of Center for Oral History at West Point and the executive producer of Into Harm’s Way, an award-winning documentary about the West Point Class of 1967. He has taught journalism at Cooper Union, Temple University, and Mount Holyoke College. A native of Indianapolis, Brewster now lives in Connecticut.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Traci

I liked the way this one took modern technology and mixed it with history. Super smart and succinct book. Only miss for me was that I did audio and know i missed a bunch.......more

Goodreads review by agata

Today marks the second anniversary of George Floyd’s death, a death that sparked countless protests against police brutality across the entire world. It wasn’t the first senseless death of a Black man caused by the police and sadly, it wasn’t and won’t be the last. Floyd’s death is one of the main f......more

Goodreads review by Oscreads

Marc Lamont Hill and Todd Brewster have written an essential book that encapsulates the important role that technology and, consequently, media has had and will continue to have to fight racial justice. This book allows us to see how powerful and influential this tool has been in unearthing the cons......more

Goodreads review by Susan

This book made me angry, pretty much constantly. The authors do a brilliant job laying out the history of the use of technology and the use of social media. (Did you know that Frederick Douglass has 168 known portraits? He deliberately used photography to counter the image of Black men as “savages.”......more

Goodreads review by James

Insightful and educational book, but runs out of steam near the end. The history of technology/media through a social justice lens made for really good reading, especially for the older history covered in the book - Birth of a Nation, Ida B. Wells, etc. This is some of the important stuff omitted fro......more

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