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America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure -- wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation -- reveals that racial inequality has barely improved since 1968, when Richard Nixon became our first "law and order" president. MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes upends our national conversation on policing and democracy in a book of wide-ranging historical, social, and political analysis. Hayes contends...
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"An essential and groundbreaking text in the effort to understand how American criminal justice went so badly awry." —Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me
In A Colony in a Nation, New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award–winning news anchor Chris Hayes upends the national conversation on policing and
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A Colony in a Nation is Chris Hayes's treatise against police brutality, which persisted and continued to develop after Jim Crow laws were dismantled in the 1960's. This police brutality has been endured mostly by people of color...Inside this companion to the book: • Overview of the Book • Insights from the Book • Important People • Author's Style and Perspective • Intended Audience.
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 There are two ways to experience the police in America: as the people you call when there is a problem, or as the people who are called on you. For many, the police are the ones who are called on them.
#2 I was a college student at the time, and I was carrying weed to a Republican convention. I was almost caught, but fortunately nothing bad came out of it. With...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Chris Hayes's A Colony in a Nation and NOT the original book.
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A Colony in a Nation is Chris Hayes's treatise against police brutality, which persisted and continued to develop after Jim Crow laws were dismantled in the 1960s. This police brutality has been endured mostly by people of color...
Inside this companion to the book:
• Overview of the Book
• Insights from the Book
• Important People
•...
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