A colony in a nation / Chris Hayes.

America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure -- wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation -- reveals that racial inequality has barely improved since 1968, when Richard Nixon became our first "law and order" president. MSNBC ancho...

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Main Author: Hayes, Christopher, 1979- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2017]
Edition:First Edition.
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Physical Description:256 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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