The Black Dragon: Racial Profiling Exposed - Couverture souple

Collum, Joseph

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0615757081 ISBN 13 : 9780615757087

Editeur : Gulf Stream Press, 2013

Synopsis

The Black Dragon is a fast-paced page-turner that reads like a novel but is sadly true. Author Joseph Collum - the prize-winning investigative reporter who the Oxford English Dictionary credits with coining the term "racial profiling" - details how the practice was invented by New Jersey State Police patrolling America's busiest highway, the Jersey Turnpike, aka The Black Dragon. The story is one of heroes and villains and victims targeted simply because of the color of their skin. It is the story of police acting without just cause, of dedicated attorneys fighting profiling against all odds, and of a massive cover-up that lasted more than a decade. Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr., calls it "a book that is by turns fascinating and infuriating - often in the same breath. The Black Dragon is a profoundly necessary book."

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Joseph Collum grew up in the tropical paradise of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and has returned to those roots in his Max Brady Mysteries. Brady's Run, published in 2009, is a murder mystery set on the white sand beaches of Fort Lauderdale. Et Tu Brady, published in 2013, is the sequel to Brady's Run. His next novel, A Bullet for Brady, will be out in 2014. The Black Dragon: Racial Profiling Exposed, published in 2010, is the true story of the invention and fight to end the practice of racial profiling. Prior to becoming an author, Collum was an investigative reporter and recipient of more than 100 major journalism awards, including the DuPont-Columbia Award, five Investigative Reporters & Editors Awards, two George Polk Awards, two Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Awards, American Bar Association Silver Gavel, National Headliner Award, Ohio State Award, and a dozen Emmy Awards. Collum was the first reporter in America to expose the widespread practice of racial profiling (the Oxford English Dictionary credits him with coining the term "racial profiling"). His final assignment was at Ground Zero on September 11, 2001 and the days immediately following the collapse of the World Trade Towers. His account of the tragedy is excerpted in the book Covering Catastrophe.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gulf Stream Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0615757081
• ISBN 13: 9780615757087
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 282
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