Open season : legalized genocide of colored people / Ben Crump.

"[Ben Crump] shows that there is a persistent, prevailing, and destructive mindset regarding colored people that is rooted in our history as a slave-owning nation. This biased attitude has given rise to mass incarceration, voter disenfranchisement, unequal educational opportunities, disparate health...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crump, Benjamin, 1969- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Crump, Benjamin, > 1969-
Civil rights lawyers > United States > Biography.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African Americans > Crimes against.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
Civil rights > United States.
Race discrimination > United States.
Police brutality > United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
United States.
Autobiographies.
Case studies.
Genre:
Biography.
Autobiographies.
Case studies.
Physical Description:260 pages ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Legalized genocide of colored people
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Racism kills
  • Police don't shoot white men in the back
  • Stand your ground
  • The conspiracy to discriminate
  • Creating the criminal
  • Killing them softly
  • Voter suppression
  • A new form of segregation
  • Caught up in the system
  • Criminalization and enslavement of the poor
  • Environmental racism
  • A tale of two Americas
  • Conclusion: we rise, we rise, we rise.