Research Catalog

Title

A perilous path : talking race, inequality, and the law / Sherrilyn Ifill, Loretta Lynch, Bryan Stevenson, and Anthony C. Thompson.

Author

Ifill, Sherrilyn A.

Publication

• New York : The New Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lynch, Loretta, 1959-
• Stevenson, Bryan
• Thompson, Anthony C.

Description

viii, 112 pages; 19 cm

Summary

"This blisteringly candid discussion of the American dilemma in the age of Trump brings together the head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the former attorney general of the United States, a bestselling author and death penalty lawyer, and a star professor for an honest conversation the country desperately needs to hear. Drawing on their collective decades of work on civil rights issues as well as personal histories of rising from poverty and oppression, these leading lights of the legal profession and the fight for racial justice talk about the importance of reclaiming the racial narrative and keeping our eyes on the horizon as we work for justice in an unjust time. Covering topics as varied as "the commonality of pain," "when lawyers are heroes," and the concept of an "equality dividend" that is due to people of color for helping America brand itself internationally as a country of diversity and acceptance, Ifill, Lynch, Stevenson, and Thompson also explore topics such as "when did 'public' become a dirty word" (hint, it has something to do with serving people of color), "you know what Jeff Sessions is going to say," and "what it means to be a civil rights lawyer in the age of Trump." Building on Stevenson's hugely successful Just Mercy, Lynch's national platform at the Justice Department, Ifill's role as one of the leading defenders of civil rights in the country, and the occasion of Thompson's launch of a new center on race, inequality, and the law at the NYU School of Law, A Perilous Path will speak loudly and clearly to everyone concerned about America's perpetual fault line."--Amazon.com.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• African Americans > Civil rights > History > 21st century
• Racism > United States > History > 21st century
• Discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States > History > 21st century
• Equality > United States > History > 21st century

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Preface / by Anthony C. Thompson -- A perilous path : Talking race, inequality, and the law -- Postscript / by Anthony C. Thompson -- Acknowledgments.

Call Number

Sc C 18-56

ISBN

• 9781620973950
• 1620973952

LCCN

• 2017046805
• 15131240
• 40027998588

OCLC

1000049629

Author

Ifill, Sherrilyn A., author.

Title

A perilous path : talking race, inequality, and the law / Sherrilyn Ifill, Loretta Lynch, Bryan Stevenson, and Anthony C. Thompson.

Publisher

New York : The New Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Lynch, Loretta, 1959- author.

Stevenson, Bryan, author.

Thompson, Anthony C., author.

Other Standard Identifier

15131240

40027998588

Research Call Number

Sc C 18-56