"A MUST-READ FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN UNDERSTANDING AND DISMANTLING MASS
INCARCERATION." --Chesa Boudin, District Attorney of San Francisco
America's criminal justice system is among the deadliest and most racist
in the world and it disproportionately targets Black Americans, who are
also disproportionately poor, hungry, houseless, jobless, sick, and
poorly educated. By every metric of misery, this nation does not act
like Black Lives Matter. In order to break out of the trap of racialized
mass incarceration and relentless racial oppression, we, as a society,
need to rethink our basic assumptions about blame and punishment, words
and symbols, social perceptions and judgments, morality, politics, and
the power of the performing arts. N*gga Theory interrogates
conventional assumptions and frames a transformational new way of
thinking about law, language, moral judgments, politics, and
transgressive art--especially profane genres like gangsta rap--and
exposes where racial bias lives in the administration of justice and
everyday life. Professor Jody Armour (Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism)
calls for bold action: electing progressive prosecutors, defunding or
dismantling the police, abolition of the prison industrial complex. But
only after eradicating the anti-black bias buried in the hearts and
minds of millions of Americans and baked into our legal system will we
be able to say that Black Lives Matter in America.
