{"product_id":"12-angry-men-gregory-s-parks-9781595587718","title":"12 Angry Men: True Stories of Being a Black Man in America Today","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Beautifully written, painfully honest\" first-person accounts of racial profiling, as experienced by a dozen black men from all over America (Michelle Alexander, author of \u003ci\u003eThe New Jim Crow\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In an era of contentious debate about controversial police practices and, more broadly, the significance of implications of race throughout American life, \u003ci\u003e12 Angry Men\u003c\/i\u003e is an urgent, moving, and timely book that exposes \"a serious impediment to the collective American Dream of a colorblind society\" (\u003ci\u003ePittsburgh Urban Media\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this \"extraordinarily compelling\" book, a dozen eloquent authors tell their own personal stories of being racially profiled. From a Harvard law school student tackled by a security guard on the streets of Manhattan, a federal prosecutor detained while walking in his own neighborhood in Washington, DC, and a high school student in Colorado arrested for \"loitering\" in the subway station as he waits for the train home, to a bike rider in Austin, Texas, a professor at a Big Ten university in Iowa, and the head of the ACLU's racial profiling initiative (who was pursued by national guardsmen after arriving on the red-eye in Boston's Logan airport), here are true stories of law-abiding Americans who also happen to be black men (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Cumulatively, the effect is staggering, and will open the eyes of anyone who thinks we live in a \"post-racial\" or \"colorblind\" America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Powerful.\" --\u003ci\u003eJet\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This is raw testimony intended to vividly capture the invasions of privacy and the assaults on dignity that always accompany unreasonable government intrusion.\" --\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gregory S. Parks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1595587713\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781595587718\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 5.20w x 0.60d","brand":"Gregory S. Parks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44047513256191,"sku":"9781595587718","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c786a141-3a78-4164-8e90-d3886b5d0e7c.jpg?v=1684990643","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/12-angry-men-gregory-s-parks-9781595587718","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}