Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance by Passmore, Ben

Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance

From the Ignatz and Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Ben Passmore comes a whirlwind graphic history of Black life,...
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Author: Ben Passmore
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Language: English
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Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance by Passmore, Ben

Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance

$33.46

Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance

$33.46
Author: Ben Passmore
Format: Paperback
Language: English
From the Ignatz and Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Ben Passmore comes a whirlwind graphic history of Black life, taken by force

It's the summer of 2020, and downtown Philly is up in flames. "You're not out in the streets with everyone else?" Ronnie asks his ambivalent son, Ben, shambling in with arms full of used books: the works of Malcom X, Robert F. Williams, Assata and Sanyika Shakur, among others. "Black liberation is your fight, too."

So begins Black Arms to Hold You Up, a boisterous, darkly funny, and sobering march through Black militant history by political cartoonist Ben Passmore. From Robert Charles's shootout with the police in 1900, to the Black Power movement in the 1960s, to the Los Angeles and George Floyd uprisings of the 1990s and 2020, readers will tumble through more than a century of armed resistance against the racist state alongside Ben--and meet firsthand the mothers and fathers of the movement, whose stories were as tragic as they were heroic.

What, after so many decades lost to state violence, is there left to fight for? Deeply researched, vibrantly drawn, and bracingly introspective, Black Arms to Hold You Up dares to find the answer.

Author: Ben Passmore
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 10/07/2025
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 10.89h x 8.53w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780593316122


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2025
Publishers Weekly 07/21/2025
Library Journal 08/01/2025 pg. 68

About the Author
BEN PASSMORE is the author of the ongoing comic book series Daygloayhole, as well as the Eisner Award-nominated and Ignatz Award-winning comic collection Your Black Friend. He also wrote and illustrated Sports Is Hell (Koyama Press), collaborated with Ezra Claytan Daniels on BTTM FDRS (Fantagraphics), and contributes to publications such as The Nib and the New York Times. He lives in Philadelphia.

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