{"product_id":"the-ferguson-report-an-erasure-9780593535998","title":"The Ferguson Report: An Erasure","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORKER \u003c\/i\u003eBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A meditation on our times, cast through a reconsideration of the Justice Department's investigation of the Ferguson Police Department\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn August 2014, Michael Brown--a young, unarmed Black man--was shot to death by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. What followed was a period of protests and turmoil, culminating in an extensive report that was filed by the Department of Justice detailing biased policing and court practices in the city. It is a document that exposes the racist policies and procedures that have become commonplace--from disproportionate arrest rates, to flagrant violence directed at the Black community. It is a report that remains as disheartening as it is damning. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow, award-winning poet Nicole Sealey revisits the investigation in a book that redacts the report, an act of erasure that reimagines the original text as it strips it away. While the full document is visible in the background--weighing heavily on the language Sealey has preserved--it gives shape and disturbing context to what remains. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIlluminating what it means to live in this frightening age, and what it means to bear witness, \u003ci\u003eThe Ferguson Report: An Erasure\u003c\/i\u003e is an engrossing meditation on one of the most important texts of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNICOLE SEALEY is the author of \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Beast\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award and PEN Open Book Award, and \u003ci\u003eThe Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named\u003c\/i\u003e. Her honors include a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a visiting professor at Boston University and teaches in the MFA Writers Workshop in Paris program at New York University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Alfred A. Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50612988117266,"sku":"9780593535998","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ecd0a516-a4ff-4c4d-beb3-519257ccd7af.jpg?v=1732383024","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-ferguson-report-an-erasure-9780593535998","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}