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Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
A worthy companion to the lauded Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, this is essential reading for all who care about justice in contemporary America.
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The National Road: Dispatches from a Changing America
Empathetic, candid, and curious, Zoellner has built an eclectic, eloquent guide to the social and physical landscapes of America.
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This Is Ohio: The Overdose Crisis and the Front Lines of a New America
The commitment, tenacity, and empathy of the users, activists, and advocates Shuler meets is a stark corrective to the disdain and dehumanization typical of policy and practice in this area. The title forcefully claims this story for Ohio, a statistical center, but addiction reaches all places, and this book is strongly recommended for readers anywhere who are interested in systemic change and the power of the grassroots. [See Prepub Alert, 3/4/20.]
Show Them You’re Good: A Portrait of Boys in the City of Angels the Year Before College
Hobbs arranges dozens of vignettes of these boys and their friends, foregrounding their experiences and centering their voice in a beautifully rendered group portrait of adolescents and of adolescence itself.
Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America
Menkedick uses her platform to seek justice in raising awareness of the complexity and depth of motherhood along with perinatal mental health disorders, and reclaiming motherhood as a powerful state. Her compelling book deserves a wide audience, from cheering mothers to chastened experts.
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American Poison: How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise
Bleak, but perhaps inspirational, this challenging critique is recommended for policymakers and readers concerned about civic engagement.
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Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
Recommended for renters, owners, developers, and policymakers alike.
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Broke: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises
With a foreword by Michael Eric Dyson, this book is an important read for policymakers and urban dwellers, locally and nationally.
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The Meritocracy Trap: How America’s Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
Though it might have been more effective at half the length, this is an important contribution to the debate on economic inequality and of note to policymakers, activists, and scholars.
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