11 Books that Examine
RACISM IN AMERICA
MURDER IN NEW
ORLEANS
The Creation of Jim Crow
Policing
Jeffrey S. Adler
“Recommended.. . Murder
in New Orleans reads like
the script for a documentary
film.”—Choice
Cloth $35.BUILDING THE
PRISON STATE
Race and the Politics of Mass
Incarceration
Heather Schoenfeld
“This is a must-read for
anyone thinking deeply
about the racial politics of
criminal justice policy.”
—John Eason, author of
Big House on the Prairie
Paper $35.THE COLOR OF
MIND
Why the Origins of the
Achievement Gap Matter for
Justice
Derrick Darby and
John L. Rury
“The Color of Mind will be
an indispensable text for
understanding educational
racial injustice.”
—Educational Theory
Paper $25.Now in Paperback
GHOSTS IN THE
SCHOOLYARD
Racism and School Closings
on Chicago’s South Side
Eve L. Ewing
“At once poignant and deeply
troubling, blending the
personal and the academic in
a way that makes the heavy
subject matter accessible.”
—Juan Vidal, NPR, Best Books
of 2018
Paper $16.Now in Paperback
THE DEATH GAP
How Inequality Kills
David A. Ansell, MD
“As Ansell argues, ‘a person’s
zip code can be more
influential than his or her
genetic code’ in determining
longevity.”—Truthout
Paper $18.CITIZEN BROWN
Race, Democracy, and
Inequality in the St. Louis
Suburbs
Colin Gordon
“A pioneering foray into a
larger, more complicated
consideration of the recent
history of race relations in
American suburbs.”
—Mark Krasovic, author of
The Newark Frontier
Paper $25.TACIT RACISM
Anne Warfield Rawls
and Waverly Duck
“A very, very important book.
It will inform, challenge,
disturb, and inspire.”
—Charles Lemert, author of
Dark Thoughts
Paper $27.BEYOND THE
USUAL BEATING
The Jon Burge Police
Torture Scandal and Social
Movements for Police
Accountability in Chicago
Andrew S. Baer
“An important addition to
the honest retelling of the
sordid history of Chicago
police torture.”
—G. Flint Taylor, founding
partner of the People’s Law
Office
Cloth $45.THE TORTURE
LETTERS
Reckoning with Police
Violence
Laurence Ralph
“This book is indispensable.”
—Ibram X. Kendi, author of
How to Be an Antiracist
Paper $19.REMEMBERING
EMMETT TILL
Dave Tell
“A fine history of racism,
poverty and memory in
the Mississippi Delta told
through the lynching of
Emmett Till.”
—The Economist
Cloth $25.CRUSADE FOR
JUSTICE
The Autobiography of
Ida B. Wells
SECOND EDITION
Ida B. Wells
Edited by Alfreda M. Duster
With a New Foreword by
Eve L. Ewing and a New Afterword
by Michelle Duster
“Wells was a sophisticated
fighter whose prose was as
thorough as her intellect.”
—New York Times
Paper $20.From
Chicago
The University of Chicago Press