Thomas J. Davis
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
This gripping read delivers penetrating explanations and fresh insights into previously unexamined dimensions of Malcolm X and his becoming and being El-hajj Malik El Shabazz within the context of Black life. Highest recommendation.
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Always Young and Restless: My Life On and Off America’s #1 Daytime Drama
For those interested in show business memoirs, both Young and the Restless fans and those unfamiliar with the series.
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Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century America
This foray into the ideas that shape and sustain U.S. law and society offers significant inroads for readers interested in the progress and pitfalls of the U.S. criminal justice system, and how incidental and intentional actions affect historical developments.
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Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
This is not an easy read for those wanting easy answers about race. Instead, it is a book about moral reckoning, owning up to failed choices, and making an effort to choose better ones. For all interested in uncovering how we got here, and how much further we have to go.
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Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities
Especially for students of urban planning and public policy but also for those seriously interested in equity and social change in America, this work combines extraordinarily readable, well-documented data analysis with a people-oriented call for activism.
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Steeped in the Blood of Racism: Black Power, Law and Order, and the 1970 Shootings at Jackson State College
For readers intent on social change, Bristow’s chronicle of events and analysis of developments, particularly the contest over the shootings’ meaning, palpably demonstrate how much historical memory matters.
Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America
Weaving legal, political, and social history, Cohen creates a richly detailed, but accessible account for all interested in the personalities and politics that have shaped and are continuing to shape not only the U.S. criminal justice system but also the fabric of American life. A must-read.
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The Affirmative Action Puzzle: A Living History from Reconstruction to Today
This book purposely offers more questions than answers as Urofsky leads us to consider how law should best combat the legacies of racism, sexism, and ableism in order to open doors of opportunity to previously excluded groups. A thought-provoking read.
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Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America
Replete with documentary evidence and examples, this work sounds an alarm for any and all readers interested in reversing the damage and danger of the nondemocratic dynamic threatening truth, justice, and the fight to vote.