Twelve Angry Men: True Stories of Being A Black Man In America Today

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True stories of racial profiling in America, which reveals some pointed truths about the nation, as twelve eloquent authors from across the United States tell their personal stories of being racially profiled. Joe Morgan, a former Major League Baseball MVP, who was falsely arrested at LAX; Paul Butler, a federal prosecutor who was detained while walking in his own neighbourhood and King Downing, former head of the ACLU's racial profiling initiative, who was pursued by National Guardsmen after arriving at Boston airport. A narrative of a different America appears.

Gregory S. Parks is an attorney in private practice and a co-editor of Critical Race Realism (The New Press). He lives in Washington, D.C. Matthew W. Hughey is an assistant professor of sociology at Mississippi State University, where he lives, and is the co-editor of The Obamas and a (Post) Racial America. Lani Guinier, 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 The Miner's Canary and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Praise for 12 Angry Men: "Powerful." --Jet "This is raw testimony intended to vividly capture the invasions of privacy and the assaults on dignity that always accompany unreasonable government intrusion." --Kirkus Reviews "This collection offers a dozen moving testimonials against a practice that pervades...Read it, and it will change the way you look at the world." --David Cole, Georgetown University "Extraordinarily compelling. Bantamweight in size, this book packs a heavyweight wallop." --Publishers Weekly