A Colony in a Nation
WW Norton · Print & ebook · March 6, 2018
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- Who it’s for
- Chris Hayes’s nonfiction invites you into a sharp, discussion-ready look at how America works.
- Genres
- Race & Ethnic Relations, Civil Rights, Race & Discrimination
- Published
- WW Norton, March 6, 2018
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New York Times Bestseller New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice "An essential and groundbreaking text in the effort to understand how American criminal justice went so badly awry." —Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me In A Colony in a Nation, New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award–winning news anchor Chris Hayes upends the national conversation on policing and democracy.
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Drawing on wide-ranging historical, social, and political analysis, as well as deeply personal experiences with law enforcement, Hayes contends that our country has fractured in two: the Colony and the Nation. In the Nation, the law is venerated. In the Colony, fear and order undermine civil rights. With great empathy, Hayes seeks to understand this systemic divide, examining its ties to racial inequality, the omnipresent threat of guns, and the dangerous and unfortunate results of choices made by fear.
Civic Fault Lines
Chris Hayes’s nonfiction invites you into a sharp, discussion-ready look at how America works.
Come here for
- civil-rights lens on American life
- local-government and civic-power questions
Expect
- cultural literacy without the jargon
- ideas you can carry into argument and conversation
Where it sits
| Race & Discrimination | 37% |
|---|---|
| Civil Rights | 35% |
| Race & Ethnic Relations | 31% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- 21st-Century America
- Race & Discrimination
- Authors
- Chris Hayes, Recorded Books, Christopher L. Hayes
- Publisher
- WW Norton
- Published
- March 6, 2018
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- 21st-Century America