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Where I belong / by Mickelson, Marcia Argueta,author.(CARDINAL)886709;
"Guatemalan-American high school senior Millie Vargas struggles to balance her family's needs with her own ambitions, especially after her mother's employer, a Senate candidate, uses Millie as a poster child for 'deserving' immigrants"--Provided by publisher.Ages 13-18.Grades 10-12.740LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Families; Immigrants; Guatemalan Americans; Dating (Social customs); Politics, Practical; Racism; Racism in public administration; Racism.;
Available copies: 22 / Total copies: 23
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The fear of too much justice : race, poverty, and the persistence of inequality in the criminal courts / by Bright, Stephen B.,1948-author.(CARDINAL)873211; Kwak, James,author.(CARDINAL)499776;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A legendary lawyer and a legal scholar reveal the structural failures that undermine justice in our criminal courts. The Fear of Too Much Justice offers a timely, trenchant, firsthand critique of our criminal courts and points the way toward a more just future"--
Subjects: Discrimination in criminal justice administration; Criminal justice, Administration of; Public prosecutors; Racism in criminal justice administration;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Book Club Kit: Beyond innocence: [kit] the life sentence of Darryl Hunt : a true story of race, wrongful conviction, and an American reckoning still to come by Zerwick, Phoebe Author; Zerwick, Phoebe Author;
The first lie -- The Blues Brothers -- Darker than blue -- She trusted the police -- A decent life -- A high-stakes game -- We were not absolutely sure -- A chamber of horrors -- What in the fuck is going on? -- Larry, I can't do it -- Life's blood ran in the grass -- We will not give up -- In this life or another -- A closer look -- Without bitterness -- Time for me to speak -- A public face -- The golden egg -- Back in the swamp -- I worried people.In May 1985, Darryl Hunt, a Black teenager in Winston-Salem, N.C. was falsely convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a young white copyeditor at the local paper. In 2003, an award-winning series of articles led to the DNA evidence that exonerated Hunt. Part true crime drama, part chronicle of a remarkable life cut short by systemic prejudice, this book powerfully illuminates the sustained catastrophe faced by an innocent person in prison and the civil death every ex-prisoner experiences attempting to restart their lives.
Subjects: Biographies.; Case studies.; Trial and arbitral proceedings.; Hunt, Darryl; African American prisoners; African American prisoners; African American social reformers; Ex-convicts; Ex-convicts; False imprisonment; False imprisonment; Judicial error; Judicial error; Racism in criminal justice adiminstration; Racism in criminal justice administration.; Racism; Racism; Trials (Murder); Trials (Rape); Racism.;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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In their names : the untold story of victims' rights, mass incarceration, and the future of public safety / by Anderson, Lenore,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."When twenty-six-year-old recent college graduate Aswad Thomas was days away from starting a professional basketball career in 2009, he was shot twice while buying juice at a convenience store. The trauma left him in excruciating pain, with mounting medical debt, and struggling to cope with deep anxiety and fear. That was the same year the national incarceration rate peaked. Yet, despite thousands of new tough-on-crime policies and billions of new dollars pumped into "justice," Aswad never received victim compensation, support, or even basic levels of concern. In the name of victims, justice bureaucracies ballooned while most victims remained on their own. In In Their Names, Lenore Anderson, president of one of the nation's largest reform advocacy organizations, offers a close look at how the political call to help victims in the 1980s morphed into a demand for bigger bureaucracies and more incarceration, and cemented the long- standing chasm that exists between most victims and the justice system. She argues that the powerful myth that mass incarceration benefits victims obscures recognition of what most victims actually need, including addressing their trauma, which is a leading cause of subsequent violent crime. A solutions-oriented, paradigm-shifting book, In Their Names argues persuasively for closing the gap between our public safety systems and crime survivors"--
Subjects: Discrimination in criminal justice administration; Racial profiling in law enforcement; Murder victims; Murder victims' families; Racism; Racism.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Beyond innocence : the life sentence of Darryl Hunt : a true story of race, wrongful conviction, and an American reckoning still to come / by Zerwick, Phoebe,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The first lie -- The Blues Brothers -- Darker than blue -- She trusted the police -- A decent life -- A high-stakes game -- We were not absolutely sure -- A chamber of horrors -- What in the fuck is going on? -- Larry, I can't do it -- Life's blood ran in the grass -- We will not give up -- In this life or another -- A closer look -- Without bitterness -- Time for me to speak -- A public face -- The golden egg -- Back in the swamp -- I worried people.In May 1985, Darryl Hunt, a Black teenager in Winston-Salem, N.C. was falsely convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a young white copyeditor at the local paper. In 2003, an award-winning series of articles led to the DNA evidence that exonerated Hunt. Part true crime drama, part chronicle of a remarkable life cut short by systemic prejudice, this book powerfully illuminates the sustained catastrophe faced by an innocent person in prison and the civil death every ex-prisoner experiences attempting to restart their lives.
Subjects: Biographies.; Case studies.; Trial and arbitral proceedings.; Hunt, Darryl; African American prisoners; African American prisoners; African American social reformers; Ex-convicts; Ex-convicts; False imprisonment; False imprisonment; Judicial error; Judicial error; Racism in criminal justice adiminstration; Racism in criminal justice administration.; Racism; Racism; Trials (Murder); Trials (Rape); Racism.;
Available copies: 60 / Total copies: 72
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More than just race : being black and poor in the inner city / by Wilson, William J.,1935-;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-176) and index.Structural and cultural forces that contribute to racial inequality -- The forces shaping concentrated poverty -- The economic plight of inner-city black males -- The fragmentation of the poor black family -- Framing the issues : uniting structure and culture.A preeminent sociologist of race explains a groundbreaking new framework for understanding racial inequality, challenging both conservative and liberal dogma. In this timely and provocative contribution to the American discourse on race, William Julius Wilson applies an exciting new analytic framework to three politically fraught social problems: the persistence of the inner-city ghetto, the plight of low-skilled black males, and the fragmentation of the African American family. Though the discussion of racial inequality is typically ideologically polarized. Wilson dares to consider both institutional and cultural factors as causes of the persistence of racial inequality. He reaches the controversial conclusion that while structural and cultural forces are inextricably linked, public policy can only change the racial status quo by reforming the institutions that reinforce it.
Subjects: Equality; African Americans; Social classes; Inner cities; Racism in criminology; Criminal justice, Administration of; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; African American prisoners; African American men; Race discrimination; African Americans; African Americans; African American authors.; African American interest.; Social justice.; Discrimination.; Poverty.; Race relations.; Prejudices.; Racism.; Classism.; African Americans.; Racism.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Practical equality : forging justice in a divided nation / by Tsai, Robert L.,1971-author.(CARDINAL)801441;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-262) and index.Practical equality -- Fair play -- The rule of reason -- No cruelty -- Free speech.Equality is easy to grasp in theory but often hard to achieve in reality. In this accessible and wide-ranging work, American University law professor Robert L. Tsai offers a stirring account of how legal ideas that aren't necessarily about equality at all-ensuring fair play, behaving reasonably, avoiding cruelty, and protecting free speech-have often been used to overcome resistance to justice and remain vital today.Practical Equality is an original and compelling book on the intersection of law and society. Tsai, a leading expert on constitutional law who has written widely in the popular press, traces challenges to equality throughout American history: from the oppression of emancipated slaves after the Civil War to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II to President Trump's ban on Muslim travelers. He applies lessons from these and other past struggles to such pressing contemporary issues as the rights of sexual minorities and the homeless, racism in the criminal justice system, police brutality, voting restrictions, oppressive measures against migrants, and more.Deeply researched and well argued, Practical Equality offers a sense of optimism and a guide to pursuing equality for activists, lawyers, public officials, and concerned citizens.
Subjects: Equality before the law; Equality before the law; Equality; Freedom of speech; Justice, Administration of;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Ferguson's fault lines : the race quake that rocked a nation / by Norwood, Kimberly Jade,editor.(CARDINAL)404447;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Michael Brown, dignity, and déja vu : from slavery to Ferguson and beyond / Christopher Alan Bracey -- The psychology of racial violence / L. Song Richardson and Phillip Atiba Goff -- The prosecution, the grand jury, and the decision not to charge / Katherine Goldwasser -- St. Louis County municipal courts, for-profit policing and the road to reforms / Thomas Harvey and Brendan Roediger -- Making Ferguson : segregation and uneven development in St. Louis and St. Louis County -- From Brown to Brown : sixty-plus years of separately unequal public education / Kimberly Jade Norwood -- If Michael Brown were alive, would he be employable? / Terry Smith -- The geography of inequality : a pubic health context for Ferguson and the St. Louis region / Jason Q. Purnell -- Media framing in black and white : the construction of black male identity / Candice Norwood -- Psychic pain : residents, protesters, police, and community / Kira Hudson Banks and Vetta L. Sanders Thompson -- Ferguson and the First Amendment / Chad Flanders -- The uncertain hope of body cameras / Howard M. Wasserman -- Policing in the 21st century / Tracey L. Meares
Subjects: Discrimination in criminal justice administration; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; Police misconduct; Police misconduct; Race discrimination; Racism; Racism.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The evidence of things not seen / by Baldwin, James,1924-1987,author.(CARDINAL)143813; Abrams, Stacey,writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)417823;
"The Evidence of Things Not Seen, award-winning author James Baldwin's searing 1985 indictment of the nation's racial stagnation, is contextualized anew by an introduction from New York Times bestselling author and political leader Stacey Abrams. In this essential work, James Baldwin examines the Atlanta child murders that took place over twenty-two months in 1979 and 1980. Examining this incident with a reporter's skill and an essayist's insight, he notes the significance of Atlanta as the site of these brutal killings-a city that claimed to be "too busy to hate"-and the permeation of race throughout the case: the Black administration in Atlanta; the murdered Black children; and Wayne Williams, the Black man tried for the crimes. In Baldwin's hands, this specific set of events has transcended its era and remains as relevant today as ever. Rummaging through the ruins of American race relations, Baldwin addresses all the hard-to-face issues that have brought us to a moment in history when we are forced to reckon with some of the country's most ingrained, foundational issues and when, too often, public officials fail to ask real questions about "justice for all." In this, his last book, Baldwin also reveals his optimistic faith in America's ability to move toward repair: "This is the only nation in the world that can hope to liberate-to begin to liberate-mankind from the strangling idea of the national identity and the tyranny of the territorial dispute. I know this sounds remote, now, and that I will not live to see anything resembling this hope come to pass. Yet, I know that I have seen it-in fire and blood and anguish, true, but I have seen it. I speak with the authority of the issue of the slave born in the country once believed to be: the last best hope of earth.""--
Subjects: Case studies.; True crime stories.; Williams, Wayne Bertram.; Serial murders; Racism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Majority and minority : the dynamics of racial and ethnic relations / by Yetman, Norman R.,1938-(CARDINAL)124082; Steele, C. Hoy.(CARDINAL)159914;
Includes bibliographical references.Part 1. Order and conflict theories of socai problems as competing ideologies -- A theory of the origin of ethnic stratification -- A societal theory of race and ethnic relations -- Paternalistic versus competitive race relations: an ideal-type approach.Part 2. Race, color, and class in Central America and the Andes -- The political socialization of marginal groups -- Two minorities: the Jews of Poland and the Chinese of the Philippines -- Communist national minority policy: the case of the Gypsies in Czechoslovakia -- Color and power in the South African situation.Part 3. The American slave plantation and our heritage of communal deprivation -- The federal government and the free Negro, 1790-1860 -- The enduring ghetto -- The American Indian: historical background -- Toward racism: the history of an idea.Part 4. Assimilation in American life: theory and reality -- Beyond the melting pot -- Achievement, culture and personality: the case of the Japanese Americans -- Family interaction, values, and achievement -- The changing Mexican-American in southern California -- Education and the future of tribalism in the United States: the case of the American Indian -- Comparing the immigrant and Negro experience -- A Negro psychiatrist explains the Negro psyche.Part 5. White institutions and Black rage -- Free will and determinism in public beliefs about race -- Black powerlessness in Chicago -- Powerless politics -- Police encounters with juveniles -- Mexican-Americans and the administration of justice: bail -- The courts have failed the poor -- Equality and beyond: housing segregation in the Great Society -- Racial inequality in employment: the patterns of discrimination -- Early childhood intervention: the social science base of institutional racism -- Federal programs and Indian target populations -- Our inaccurate textbooks -- Black athletes on intercollegiate basketball teams: an empirical test of discrimination.Part 6. Black militancy -- The Negro revolution: possible or impossible? -- Crisis in New Mexico -- Social protest of the 1960's takes the form of the equality revolution.
Subjects: Minorities; Race relations.; Minorities.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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