{"product_id":"12-angry-men-9781595586292","title":"12 Angry Men","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e“Beautifully written, painfully honest” first-person accounts of racial profiling, as experienced by twelve black men from all over America (Michelle Alexander, author of \u003cem\u003eThe New Jim Crow\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In an era of contentious debate about controversial police practices and, more broadly, the significance of implications of race throughout American life, \u003cem\u003e12 Angry Men\u003c\/em\u003e is an urgent, moving, and timely book that exposes “a serious impediment to the collective American Dream of a colorblind society” (\u003cem\u003ePittsburgh Urban Media\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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 (\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e).","brand":"Gregory S. Parks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48283959689467,"sku":"9781595586292","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_a3086a83-cd3a-4593-be34-d071a8733763.jpg?v=1771382502","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/12-angry-men-9781595586292","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}