Lament for Sheku Bayoh
Laverey, Hannah2021
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A young black man lost his life. Five years ago. In police custody. In Scotland. Soon after 7am, on a Sunday morning - May 3rd, 2015, Sheku Bayoh, a 31 year-old gas engineer, husband and father of two died in Police custody on the streets of his home town - Kirkcaldy, Fife. Bayoh's family launched a campaign seeking justice and in 2019 a judge-led inquiry was announced to determine the manner of his death and whether 'actual or perceived race' had played a part in it. Lament for Sheku Bayoh is an artistic response to this tragedy, an expression of grief for the loss of the human behind the headlines and a non- apologetic reflection on identity and racism in Scotland today. 'Lament for Sheku Bayoh' asks the urgent question, is Scotland really a safe place?
Main title:
Lament for Sheku Bayoh / Hannah Laverey.
Author:
Laverey, Hannah, author
Edition:
Lanarkshire edition.
Imprint:
Glasgow : Salamander Street, 2021.
Collation:
64 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781914228230 (pbk)
Dewey class:
821.92LR821.92L821.92821.9
LC class:
PR6112
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2923528
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