A Colony in a Nation
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (686 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 039335542X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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“Hayes’s forceful analysiscompels readers to wrestle with some very tough questions about the nature of American democracy and its deep roots in racism, inequality and punishment.”” - Khalil Gibran Muhammad, New York Times Book Review“A Colony in a Nation reminds us that fear of the other, when weaponized and mechanized by the state, usually makes things worse. That’s a lesson Americans of every color would do well to remember.” - Eric Liu, Washington Post“Terrific and really important.” - Rebecca Traister“A Colony in a Nation is a highly original analysis of America’s arbitrary and erratic criminal justice system. Pederson, Library Journa
. Chris Hayes is the Emmy Award–winning host of All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC, the New York Times best-selling author of Twilight of the Elites, and an editor-at-large at The Nation. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, daughter, and son
“An essential and groundbreaking text in the effort to understand how American criminal justice went so badly awry.” Ta-Nehisi Coates A New York Times bestseller, A Colony in a Nation ignited a national conversation. A Colony in a Nation explains how a country founded on justice now looks like something uncomfortably close to a police state. America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measurewealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregationreveals that racial inequality has barely improved since 1968, when Richard Nixon became our first “law and order” president.Hayes contends our country has fractured in two: the Colony and the Nation. How and why did Americans build a system where conditions in Ferguson and West Baltimore mirror those that sparked the American Revolution? In this “brilliant diagnosis” of our country’s ailing criminal justice system (Christian Science Monitor), award-winning journalist Chris Hayes condemns the corrupting influence of fear on our democracy and provides a bold and original framework for understanding race, civil rights, and law enfo
Book Shark said Memorable and Provocative. A Colony in a Nation by Chris Hayes“A Colony in a Nation” is an interesting book on social justice. Emmy Award winning news anchor and New York Times best-selling author Chris Hayes provides the public with an interesting analogy that captures and drives his main premise, the terrifying truth that we as a people have created the Colony within our Nati. Essential Nothing short of revelatory. Most of us already know that America's criminal justice system is unequal. But Hayes lays out the historical context of this inequality, connecting it with, among other things, a long history of excessive policing. As a white New Yorker, he has a unique perspective on white fear, white privilege, and how these things support and maint. Personal and honest, funny & cringeworthy at times, definitely worth the quick read for the metaphor alone Chris Hayes does a tremendous job of making an easy read, an interesting and even educational read, a fast read that isn't fluff that deals head on with a very narrow slice of the country's multidimensional race issues. Here he takes on policing and the differences one might feel as a member of "the colony" rather than, as he is, a member of "the Nation."The best