Books like 'Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment'
Readers who enjoyed Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment by Angela J. Davis, Bryan Stevenson, Marc Mauer, Bruce Western & Jeremy Travis also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Final Verdict by Sheldon Siegel
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFate throws a curveball at the San Francisco ex-husband-and-wife legal team of Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez, when Mike picks up the phone and hears the voice of Leon Walker. This is not good news-because Walker was the one who ruined their marriage. Years ago, he and his brother participated in a stickup that left a man dead... -
![The Last Chance Lawyer by William Bernhardt]()
The Last Chance Lawyer by William Bernhardt
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsGetting his client off death row could save his career… or make him the next victim. Daniel Pike would rather fight for justice than follow the rules. His unique ability to "connect the dots," to observe what others do not, has made him the most notorious criminal lawyer in St. Petersburg. But when his courtroom career goes up in smoke, he fears his lifelong purpose is a lost cause... -
![Betrayal High by Mark M. Bello]()
Betrayal High by Mark M. Bello
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat does a kid do when it just won’t stop?Kevin Burns has had enough. Today, the bullying stops. Today, he has easy access to his father’s gun cabinet. Today, Kevin exacts his revenge.“You think I’m small? Maybe I am, but my gun is huge . . . Size does matter—the larger the gun, the larger the . . .” Jake Tracey’s phone buzzes. It’s a text from his brother, Kenny.Where are you?English class... -
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Cruel by W.L. Knightly
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKay Havelin just landed her first job as an attorney with a prominent New Orleans law firm, but standing in the way of her dream life and career is her abusive, addict boyfriend, Casey Young.After offering to help him through rehab, things gets tense and she ends the relationship... -
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![We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba, Naomi Murakawa]()
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba, Naomi Murakawa
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned about how you're going to actually build power in order to be able to push your issues, in order to be able to get the target to actually move in the way that you want to... -
![Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis, Michael D'Orso]()
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis, Michael D'Orso
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn eloquent, epic firsthand account of the civil rights movement by a man who lived it-an American hero whose courage, vision, and dedication helped change history. The son of an Alabama sharecropper, and now a sixth-term United States Congressman, John Lewis has led an extraordinary life, one that found him at the epicenter of the civil rights movement in the late '50s and '60s... -
![Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff]()
Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the congressman who led the first impeachment of Donald J. Trump, the vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, and a warning that the forces of autocracy unleashed by Trump remain as potent as ever... -
![Was weiße Menschen nicht über Rassismus hören wollen by Alice Hasters]()
Was weiße Menschen nicht über Rassismus hören wollen by Alice Hasters
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratings„Aber wo kommst du wirklich her?“, „Darf ich deine Haare anfassen?“ und „Schokobabys sind so niedlich“ – rassistische Gedanken sitzen tief. Darüber müssen wir reden. Alice Hasters beschreibt, was es bedeutet, heute als schwarze Frau in Deutschland zu leben...Categorized as:
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![Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods by Otegha Uwagba]()
Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods by Otegha Uwagba
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this powerful and timely personal essay, best-selling author Otegha Uwagba reflects on racism, whiteness, and the mental labour required of Black people to navigate the two... -
![The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Abdurraqib]()
The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Abdurraqib
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Crown Ain't Worth Much, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib's first full-length collection, is a sharp and vulnerable portrayal of city life in the United States. A regular columnist for MTV.com, Willis-Abdurraqib brings his interest in pop culture to these poems, analyzing race, gender, family, and the love that finally holds us together even as it threatens to break us...Categorized as:
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![Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul by Michael Fanone, John Shiffman]()
Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul by Michael Fanone, John Shiffman
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn urgent warning about the growing threat to our democracy from a twenty-year police veteran and former Trump supporter who nearly lost his life during the insurrection of January 6th.When Michael Fanone self-deployed to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, he had no idea his life was about to change...Categorized as:
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![Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang]()
Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEssays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing.What we see happening in Ferguson and other cities around the country is not the creation of livable spaces, but the creation of living hells...Categorized as:
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![The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran]()
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“Read this book. It explains so much about the moment…Beautiful, heartbreaking work.”―Ta-Nehisi CoatesWhen the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States’ total wealth. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged... -
![Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt]()
Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this incisive and razor-sharp analysis of one of the most important issues facing us today, leading Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt draw on their combined expertise of over 40 years to examine how dictators come to power, and how they help to foster a poisonous culture of polarisation, fear and suspicion that persists even after their time in power is over... -
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![Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance by Jesse Wente]()
Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance by Jesse Wente
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER of the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Non-FictionSHORTLISTED for the 2023 Speaker's Book AwardA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR" Unreconciled is one hell of a good book. Jesse Wente’s narrative moves effortlessly from the personal to the historical to the contemporary. Very powerful, and a joy to read...Categorized as:
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![Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power by Lola Olufemi]()
Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power by Lola Olufemi
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMore than just a slogan on a t-shirt, feminism is a radical tool for fighting back against structural violence and injustice. Feminism, Interrupted is a bold call to seize feminism back from the cultural gatekeepers and return it to its radical roots... -
![Real American: A Memoir by Julie Lythcott-Haims]()
Real American: A Memoir by Julie Lythcott-Haims
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA fearless debut memoir in which beloved and bestselling How to Raise an Adult author Julie Lythcott-Haims pulls no punches in her recollections of growing up a biracial black woman in America... -
![Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom by Norman G. Finkelstein]()
Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom by Norman G. Finkelstein
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places in the world. More than two-thirds of its inhabitants are refugees, and more than half are under eighteen years of age. Since 2004, Israel has launched eight devastating “operations” against Gaza’s largely defenseless population. Thousands have perished, and tens of thousands have been left homeless... -
![You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix]()
You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign―ten weeks that would shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America.It’s one of the iconic photographs of American A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963... -
![We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest and Possibility by Marc Lamont Hill]()
We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest and Possibility by Marc Lamont Hill
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe uprising of 2020 marked a new phase in the unfolding Movement for Black Lives. The brutal killings of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor, and countless other injustices large and small, were the match that lit the spark of the largest protest movement in US history, a historic uprising against racism and the politics of disposability that the Covid-19 pandemic lays bare...Categorized as:
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![Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law by Dean Spade]()
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law by Dean Spade
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWait—what’s wrong with rights?Much of the legal advocacy for trans and gender nonconforming people in the US has reflected the civil rights and "equality" strategies of mainstream gay and lesbian organizations—agitating for legal reforms that would ostensibly guarantee equal access, nondiscrimination, and equal protection under the law... -
![They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms by Mike Hixenbaugh]()
They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms by Mike Hixenbaugh
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public education in America—from an NBC investigative reporter and co-creator of the Peabody Award–winning and Pulitzer Prize finalist Southlake podcast... -
![I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street by Matt Taibbi]()
I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street by Matt Taibbi
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA work of riveting literary journalism that explores the roots and repercussions of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the New York City police—from the bestselling author of The Divide...Categorized as:
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![The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates]()
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![African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song by Kevin Young]()
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song by Kevin Young
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the presentOnly now, in the 21st century, can we fully grasp the breadth and range of African American poetry: a magnificent chorus of voices, some familiar, others recently rescued from neglect... -
![Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider by Charles Person, Richard Rooker]()
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider by Charles Person, Richard Rooker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward--written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers.At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement who left Washington, D.C. by bus in 1961, headed for New Orleans...Categorized as:
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![Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights by Steven Levingston]()
Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights by Steven Levingston
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKennedy and King traces the emergence of two of the twentieth century's greatest leaders, their powerful impact on each other and on the shape of the civil rights battle between 1960 and 1963. These two men from starkly different worlds profoundly influenced each other's personal development...Categorized as:
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![Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods by Shawn Wilson]()
Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods by Shawn Wilson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIndigenous researchers are knowledge seekers who work to progress Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing in a modern and constantly evolving context. This book describes a research paradigm shared by Indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, and demonstrates how this paradigm can be put into practice. Relationships don’t just shape Indigenous reality, they are our reality... -
![Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger]()
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSimple Justice is generally regarded as the classic account of the U.S. Supreme Court’s epochal decision outlawing racial segregation and the centerpiece of African-Americans’ ongoing crusade for equal justice under law.The 1954 Supreme Court ruling in the case of Brown v. Board of Education brought centuries of legal segregation in this country to an end... -
![Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal]()
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn December 1981, independent journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal was shot and then beaten into unconsciousness by Philadelphia police. He awoke to find himself shackled to a hospital bed, accused of killing a cop...
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