{"product_id":"12-angry-men-true-stories-of-being-a-black-man-in-america-today-9781595587718","title":"12 Angry Men: True Stories of Being a Black Man in America Today","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Beautifully written, painfully honest\" first-person accounts of racial profiling, as experienced by a dozen black men from all over America (Michelle Alexander, author of \u003ci\u003eThe New Jim Crow\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In an era of contentious debate about controversial police practices and, more broadly, the significance of implications of race throughout American life, \u003ci\u003e12 Angry Men\u003c\/i\u003e is an urgent, moving, and timely book that exposes \"a serious impediment to the collective American Dream of a colorblind society\" (\u003ci\u003ePittsburgh Urban Media\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this \"extraordinarily compelling\" book, a dozen eloquent authors tell their own personal stories of being racially profiled. From a Harvard law school student tackled by a security guard on the streets of Manhattan, a federal prosecutor detained while walking in his own neighborhood in Washington, DC, and a high school student in Colorado arrested for \"loitering\" in the subway station as he waits for the train home, to a bike rider in Austin, Texas, a professor at a Big Ten university in Iowa, and the head of the ACLU's racial profiling initiative (who was pursued by national guardsmen after arriving on the red-eye in Boston's Logan airport), here are true stories of law-abiding Americans who also happen to be black men (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Cumulatively, the effect is staggering, and will open the eyes of anyone who thinks we live in a \"post-racial\" or \"colorblind\" America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Powerful.\" --\u003ci\u003eJet\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This is raw testimony intended to vividly capture the invasions of privacy and the assaults on dignity that always accompany unreasonable government intrusion.\" --\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGregory S. Parks\u003c\/b\u003e is an attorney in private practice and a co-editor of \u003ci\u003eCritical Race Realism\u003c\/i\u003e (The New Press). He lives in Washington, D.C. \u003cb\u003eMatthew W. Hughey\u003c\/b\u003e is an assistant professor of sociology at Mississippi State University, where he lives, and is the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Obamas and a (Post) Racial America\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eLani Guinier\u003c\/b\u003e, a professor at Harvard Law School, was the first black woman ever to head the civil rights division of the Justice Department. She is the author of the critically acclaimed book \u003ci\u003eThe Miner's Canary\u003c\/i\u003e and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50918166724882,"sku":"9781595587718","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_792bedf5-28e1-4baa-b3b5-25f3d49c0288.jpg?v=1738878461","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/12-angry-men-true-stories-of-being-a-black-man-in-america-today-9781595587718","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}