Colony in a Nation
Colony in a Nation A New York Times bestseller, A Colony in a Nation ignited a national conversation.America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical…
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Colony in a Nation
A New York Times bestseller, A Colony in a Nation ignited a national conversation.America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure--wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation--reveals that racial inequality has barely improved since 1968, when Richard Nixon became our first "law and order" president.Hayes contends our country has fractured in two: the Colony and the Nation. In the Colony, we obsess over order, fear trumps civil rights, and aggressive policing resembles occupation. In the Nation, we venerate the law.
How and why did Americans build a system where conditions in Ferguson and West Baltimore mirror those that sparked the American A Colony in a Nation explains how a country founded on justice now looks like something uncomfortably close to a police state.