A Colony in a Nation

✍ Scribed by Hayes, Chris

• Book ID: 110302377
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 162 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780393254228

✦ Synopsis

Emmy Award-winning news anchor and New York Times best-selling author Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation.

America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a post-racial world, but nearly every empirical measure--wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation--reveals that racial inequality hasn't improved since 1968. With the clarity and originality that distinguished his prescient bestseller Twilight of the Elites ("a stunning polemic," said Ta-Nehisi Coates), award-winning journalist Chris Hayes offers a powerful new framework in which to understand our current crisis.

Hayes contends our country has fractured in two: the Colony and the Nation. In the Nation, we venerate the law. In the Colony, we obsess over order; fear trumps civil rights; and aggressive policing resembles occupation. How and why did Americans build a system where conditions in Ferguson and West Baltimore mirror those that sparked...