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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBaker succeeds in making his case... How fitting that Baker offers not just words here but action too. -- Erin Aubry Kaplan Los Angeles Times A courageous book, raising much needed questions in this our brave new world. -- Lolis Eric Elie The Times-Picayune I highly recommend this exceptional work of scholarship, for it is worth the price of the ticket. -- Hanes Walton Jr. Political Science Quarterly
Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Little Africa Jail: Southern Detention to Global Liberation Friends Like These: Race and Neoconservatism After Civil Rights: The Rise of Black Public Intellectuals Have Mask, Will Travel: Centrists from the Ivy League A Capital Fellow from Hoover: Shelby Steele Reflections of a First Amendment Trickster: Stephen Carter Man Without Connection: John McWhorter American Myth: Illusions of Liberty and Justice for All Prison: Colored Bodies, Private Profit Conclusion: What Then Must We Do? Notes Bibliography Index
