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  • The Presumption of Guilt

    The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Race, Class, and Crime in America

    by Charles Ogletree ...
    A look at the arrest of an acclaimed Harvard professor and what it says about the state of race relations and civil rights in America."Professor Ogletree lifts up voices that have been forgotten. That has been his life's work. . . . It has been my great honor and a pleasure of my life to have known [him]." —President Barack ObamaShortly after noon on Tuesday, July 16, 2009, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Life without Parole

    America's New Death Penalty?

    Edited by Austin Sarat, Charles J. Ogletree Jr. ...
    Series Book 1 - The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race and Justice
    Is life without parole the perfect compromise to the death penalty? Or is it as ethically fraught as capital punishment? This comprehensive, interdisciplinary anthology treats life without parole as “the new death penalty.” Editors Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat bring together original work by prominent scholars in an effort to better understand the growth of life without parole and its ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Punishment in Popular Culture

    Edited by Charles J. Ogletree Jr., Austin Sarat ...
    Series Book 4 - The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race and Justice
    The way a society punishes demonstrates its commitment to standards of judgment and justice, its distinctive views of blame and responsibility, and its particular way of responding to evil. Punishment in Popular Culture examines the cultural presuppositions that undergird America’s distinctive approach to punishment and analyzes punishment as a set of images, a spectacle of condemnation. It ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • When Law Fails

    Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice

    Edited by Charles J. Ogletree Jr., Austin Sarat ...
    Series Book 3 - The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race and Justice
    Since 1989, there have been over 200 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States. On the surface, the release of innocent people from prison could be seen as a victory for the criminal justice system: the wrong person went to jail, but the mistake was fixed and the accused set free. A closer look at miscarriages of justice, however, reveals that such errors are not aberrations but deeply ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Racial Reconciliation and the Healing of a Nation

    Beyond Law and Rights

    Edited by Austin Sarat, Charles J. Ogletree Jr. ...
    Series Book 2 - The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race and Justice
    The work at hand for bridging the racial divide in the United StatesFrom Baltimore and Ferguson to Flint and Charleston, the dream of a post-racial era in America has run up against the continuing reality of racial antagonism. Current debates about affirmative action, multiculturalism, and racial hate speech reveal persistent uncertainty and ambivalence about the place and meaning of race – and ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State

    Race and the Death Penalty in America

    Edited by Charles J. Ogletree Jr., Austin Sarat ...
    Series Book 6 - The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race and Justice
    Situates the linkage between race and the death penalty in the history of the U.S.Since 1976, over forty percent of prisoners executed in American jails have been African American or Hispanic. This trend shows little evidence of diminishing, and follows a larger pattern of the violent criminalization of African American populations that has marked the country's history of punishment.In a bold ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Road to Abolition?

    The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States

    Edited by Austin Sarat, Charles J. Ogletree Jr. ...
    Series Book 5 - The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race and Justice
    At the start of the twenty-first century, America is in the midst of a profound national reconsideration of the death penalty. There has been a dramatic decline in the number of people being sentenced to death as well as executed, exonerations have become common, and the number of states abolishing the death penalty is on the rise. The essays featured in The Road to Abolition? track this shift in ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Life without Parole

    America's New Death Penalty?

    Edited by Jr., Charles J. Ogletree, Austin Sarat ...
    Is life without parole the perfect compromise to the death penalty? Or is it as ethically fraught as capital punishment? This comprehensive, interdisciplinary anthology treats life without parole as “the new death penalty.” Editors Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat bring together original work by prominent scholars in an effort to better understand the growth of life without parole and its ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • A New Juvenile Justice System

    Total Reform for a Broken System

    Edited by Nancy E. Dowd ...
    Series Book 6 - Families, Law, and Society
    A New Juvenile Justice System aims at nothing less than a complete reform of the existing system: not minor change or even significant overhaul, but the replacement of the existing system with a different vision. The authors in this volume—academics, activists, researchers, and those who serve in the existing system—all respond in this collection to the question of what the system should be. ... Read more

    $60.49 CAD

  • All Deliberate Speed

    Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education

    by Charles J. Ogletree Jr. ...
    "An effective blend of memoir, history and legal analysis."—Christopher Benson, Washington Post Book WorldIn what John Hope Franklin calls "an essential work" on race and affirmative action, Charles Ogletree, Jr., tells his personal story of growing up a "Brown baby" against a vivid pageant of historical characters that includes, among others, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King, Jr., Earl ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

    by Nancy MacLean ...
    **Winner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeFinalist for the National Book AwardThe Nation's "Most Valuable Book"“[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right.”—The Atlantic“This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains. . . . If you're worried about what all ... Read more

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  • Dog Whistle Politics

    How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class

    by Ian Haney López ...
    Campaigning for president in 1980, Ronald Reagan told stories of Cadillac-driving "welfare queens" and "strapping young bucks" buying T-bone steaks with food stamps. In trumpeting these tales of welfare run amok, Reagan never needed to mention race, because he was blowing a dog whistle: sending a message about racial minorities inaudible on one level, but clearly heard on another. In doing so, he ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD