Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control (Chicago Studies in American Politics)
By: Amy E. Lerman
4.15
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
The numbers are One-third of America’s adult population has passed through the criminal justice sy…
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1. Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law, 7)
By: None , Victor M. Rios
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Victor Rios grew up in the ghetto of Oakland, California in the 1980s and 90s. A former gang member… read more
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2. All About Love: New Visions
By: bell hooks
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more
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"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
3. The Idiot
By: Elif Batuman
3.66
Format: 423 pages, Hardcover
A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself… read more
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"For a while now, I have been conscious of a tension in my relationship with you,"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
"Lighting a match felt exciting and a little bit dangerous, and when the flame came into contact with the paper, it made a sound like the needle coming down on a record player—like the music was about…"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
"For the first time in my life, I couldn't think of anything I particularly wanted to study or to do. I still had the old idea of being a writer, but that was being, not doing. It didn't say what you …"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
"Suddenly it occurred to me that maybe the point of writing wasn't just to record something past but also to prolong the present, like in One Thousand and One Nights, to stretch out the time until the…"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
4. Between the World and Me
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.40
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live wi… read more
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"Soft or hard, love was an act of heroism."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
5. Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship (Chicago Series in Law and Society)
By: None , Steven Maynard-Moody , None
3.99
Format: None pages,
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6. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
By: Iain Reid
3.55
Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition
Now a Netflix original movie, this deeply scary and intensely unnerving novel follows a couple in t… read more
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"Reality only happens once." (P. 48)"-Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things
"It hurts, all of it, but we feel nothing."-Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things
"Every story is made up. Even the real ones."-Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things
"I actually want to be older. I’m happy to age, seriously."-Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things
7. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
By: Isabel Wilkerson
4.53
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more
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"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
8. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
By: Beth Macy
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction.… read more
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"The corporation feels no pain."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"You whack one [dealer], and the others just pop right up, like Whac-A-Mole"-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long and for truly no good law enforcement reason."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"But you can't put a corporation in jail; you just take their money, and it's not really their money anyway."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
9. Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
By: Derecka Purnell
4.44
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From commu… read more
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"The systems responsible for our oppression cannot be the same systems responsible for our liberation."-Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
"Campus police and street police are different strands of the same supremacy that plague our resistance."-Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
10. Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
By: Reuben Jonathan Miller
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A "persuasive and essential" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life af… read more
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11. The Idea of Prison Abolition (Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series)
By: Tommie Shelby
3.73
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
An incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonment Desp… read more
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12. Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control (Chicago Studies in American Politics)
By: Amy E. Lerman
4.15
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
The numbers are One-third of America’s adult population has passed through the criminal justice sy… read more
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