A New York Times Notable Book
Best Books of 2021: TIME, Smithsonian
New York Times Book Review • Editors' Choice
“Not since Angela Davis’s 2003 book,
Are Prisons Obsolete?, has a scholar so persuasively challenged our conventional understanding of the criminal legal system.†â€"Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr.,
Washington PostFrom one of our top historians, a groundbreaking story of policing and “riots†that shatters our understanding of the postâ€"civil rights era.