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The presumption of guilt : the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and race, class, and crime in America
"Shortly after noon on Tuesday, July 16, 2009, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., MacArthur Fellow and Harvard professor, was mistakenly arrested by Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley for attempting to break into his own home. The ensuing media firestorm ignited debate across the country. The Crowley...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The cop and the professor
- "Keep the cars coming" : what really happened
- "President Obama doesn't like white people" : the public reaction
- "Don't tase me, bro!" : how far have we really come?
- Fair Harvard? : the class issue
- Driving while black : fighting back against racial profiling
- Race, class, justice, and post-racial America
- Epilogue:
- 100 ways to look at a black man.