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Open season : legalized genocide of colored people / Ben Crump.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crump, Benjamin, 1969- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crump, Benjamin, 1969-.
- Crump, Benjamin.
- Civil rights lawyers--United States--Biography.
- Civil rights lawyers.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Crimes against.
- African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Civil rights--United States.
- Civil rights.
- United States.
- Race discrimination--United States.
- Race discrimination.
- Police brutality--United States.
- Police brutality.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Case studies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 260 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]
- Summary:
- "[Ben Crump] shows that there is a persistent, prevailing, and destructive mindset regarding colored people that is rooted in our history as a slave-owning nation. This biased attitude has given rise to mass incarceration, voter disenfranchisement, unequal educational opportunities, disparate health care practices, job and housing discrimination, police brutality, and an unequal justice system... Open Season is more than Crump's incredible mission to preserve justice, it is a call to action for Americans to begin living up to the promise to protect the rights of its citizens equally and without question."-- Dust jacket flap.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Racism kills
- Police don't shoot white men in the back
- Stand your ground
- The conspiracy to discriminate
- Creating the criminal
- Killing them softly
- Voter suppression
- A new form of segregation
- Caught up in the system
- Criminalization and enslavement of the poor
- Environmental racism
- A tale of two Americas
- Conclusion: we rise, we rise, we rise.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-260).
- ISBN:
- 0062375091
- 9780062375094
- OCLC:
- 1064557121
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