A Colony in a Nation
Chris Hayes
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Description
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. 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.
Product Details
Price
$15.95
$14.83
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
March 06, 2018
Pages
272
Dimensions
5.4 X 8.2 X 0.8 inches | 0.5 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780393355420
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About the Author
Chris Hayes is the Emmy Award-winning host of All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC, the New York Times best-selling author of Twilight of the Elites, and an editor-at-large at The Nation. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and children.
Reviews
Terrific and really important.--Rebecca Traister
An up-to-date (and masterfully interwoven) blend of statistics, history, and analysis.--Peter C. Baker
Chris Hayes' ominous account of what's ailing America... [offers a] rare view into a wide racial and class cross-section of society.--Ryan Cooper
A timely and impassioned argument for social justice.
[Hayes is] the young left's most erudite and urgent interpreter.
[P]erhaps the first significant theorization on race of the Trump era.--Matthew Pulver
This readable and thoughtful work will appeal to readers interested in civil rights and criminal justice, and is especially insightful.--William D. Pederson
Hayes's forceful analysis...compel[s] readers to wrestle with some very tough questions about the nature of American democracy.--Khalil Gibran Muhammad
A Colony in a Nation is a highly original analysis of America's arbitrary and erratic criminal justice system. Indeed, by Hayes's lights, the system is not erratic at all--it treats one group of Americans as citizens, and another as the colonized. This is 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
An up-to-date (and masterfully interwoven) blend of statistics, history, and analysis.--Peter C. Baker
Chris Hayes' ominous account of what's ailing America... [offers a] rare view into a wide racial and class cross-section of society.--Ryan Cooper
A timely and impassioned argument for social justice.
[Hayes is] the young left's most erudite and urgent interpreter.
[P]erhaps the first significant theorization on race of the Trump era.--Matthew Pulver
This readable and thoughtful work will appeal to readers interested in civil rights and criminal justice, and is especially insightful.--William D. Pederson
Hayes's forceful analysis...compel[s] readers to wrestle with some very tough questions about the nature of American democracy.--Khalil Gibran Muhammad
A Colony in a Nation is a highly original analysis of America's arbitrary and erratic criminal justice system. Indeed, by Hayes's lights, the system is not erratic at all--it treats one group of Americans as citizens, and another as the colonized. This is 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
