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Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xii, 203 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking expose about the alarming use of rap lyrics as criminal evidence to convict and incarcerate young men of color.
Should Johnny Cash have been charged with murder after he sang, "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die"? Few would seriously subscribe to this notion of justice. Yet in 2001, a rapper named Mac whose music had gained national recognition was convicted of manslaughter after the prosecutor quoted liberally from his album...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This book reveals how the Supreme Court allows the perpetuation of racist policing by presuming that suspects, especially people of color, are guilty. It presents a troubling history that reveals how the Supreme Court enabled racist policing and sanctioned law enforcement excesses. The fact that police are nine times more likely to kill Black men than other Americans is no accident; it is the result of an elaborate body of doctrines that allow the...
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