The Resource Stakes is high : life after the American dream, Mychal Denzel Smith
Stakes is high : life after the American dream, Mychal Denzel Smith
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The item Stakes is high : life after the American dream, Mychal Denzel Smith represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Memorial Hall Library.
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- Summary
- "We are better than this" has been the rallying cry since Donald Trump was elected. But as New York Times-bestselling author Mychal Denzel Smith shows, Americans are too comfortable imagining our greatness. We like to believe in the rightness of our path and the inevitability of choosing our better angels. But historically, we've only come close to living up to the ideals we profess after we've been dragged, kicking and screaming, toward justice. Growth only happens when we confront our deceptions and our own complicity in them. In Stakes Is High, Smith exposes the contradictions at the heart of American life - between patriotism and justice, between freedom and inequality, incarceration, police violence. In a series of incisive essays, Smith holds us to account individually and as a nation. He examines his own shortcomings, grapples with the anxiety of feeling stuck, and looks in new directions for the tools to build a just America. He questions whether Martin Luther King, Jr. can ever really be the hero we need in our time, untangles the persistent cultural power of Bill Cosby, and weighs the value of police and prison abolition. Stakes Is High establishes Mychal Denzel Smith as a voice to be heeded as we prepare for the fight ahead"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- vii, 193 pages
- Contents
-
- The forethought
- Part 1. Delusions
- Part 2. Justice
- Part 3. Accountability
- Part 4. Freedom
- The afterthought
- Isbn
- 9781568588735
- Label
- Stakes is high : life after the American dream
- Title
- Stakes is high
- Title remainder
- life after the American dream
- Statement of responsibility
- Mychal Denzel Smith
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "We are better than this" has been the rallying cry since Donald Trump was elected. But as New York Times-bestselling author Mychal Denzel Smith shows, Americans are too comfortable imagining our greatness. We like to believe in the rightness of our path and the inevitability of choosing our better angels. But historically, we've only come close to living up to the ideals we profess after we've been dragged, kicking and screaming, toward justice. Growth only happens when we confront our deceptions and our own complicity in them. In Stakes Is High, Smith exposes the contradictions at the heart of American life - between patriotism and justice, between freedom and inequality, incarceration, police violence. In a series of incisive essays, Smith holds us to account individually and as a nation. He examines his own shortcomings, grapples with the anxiety of feeling stuck, and looks in new directions for the tools to build a just America. He questions whether Martin Luther King, Jr. can ever really be the hero we need in our time, untangles the persistent cultural power of Bill Cosby, and weighs the value of police and prison abolition. Stakes Is High establishes Mychal Denzel Smith as a voice to be heeded as we prepare for the fight ahead"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1986-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Smith, Mychal Denzel
- Dewey number
- 973.933
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HM821
- LC item number
- .S58 2020
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Equality
- Prisons
- Civil rights
- Police misconduct
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration
- Label
- Stakes is high : life after the American dream, Mychal Denzel Smith
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- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
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- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The forethought -- Part 1. Delusions -- Part 2. Justice -- Part 3. Accountability -- Part 4. Freedom -- The afterthought
- Control code
- on1090368548
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- vii, 193 pages
- Isbn
- 9781568588735
- Lccn
- 2020001915
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- System control number
- (OCoLC)1090368548
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- Stakes is high : life after the American dream, Mychal Denzel Smith
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- Contents
- The forethought -- Part 1. Delusions -- Part 2. Justice -- Part 3. Accountability -- Part 4. Freedom -- The afterthought
- Control code
- on1090368548
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- vii, 193 pages
- Isbn
- 9781568588735
- Lccn
- 2020001915
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- unmediated
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