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Broken scales : race and the crisis of justice in a divided America / Tom Diaz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Diaz, Tom, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- Polarization (Social sciences)--United States.
- Polarization (Social sciences).
- Racism--United States--History--21st century.
- Racism.
- Race relations.
- United States--Race relations--History--21st century.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (227 pages)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2021.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]
- Summary:
- This book analyzes the everyday actions of ordinary people in the context of extreme political and cultural polarization, distort the criminal justice system and betray the lofty ideals expressed in American founding documents and centuries of Anglo-American articulations of basic human rights.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- 1 The Lens of Racial Perception
- 2 Alabama
- 3 Midnight Matters
- 4 Victims
- 5 Heritage
- 6 The Assembly Line
- 7 Through a Lens Darkly
- 8 No N Words Anywhere
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-8183-426-5
- 1-5381-3851-4
- OCLC:
- 1273974785
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