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Synopsis

When Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was questioned by the police at his home in an affluent neighbourhood, many people across the country reacted with surprise and disbelief. But African American men from coast to coast experienced painful recognition; Gatesgate' was merely the very public manifestation of a phenomenon many black men experience regularly. Here a dozen eloquent authors tell their own personal versions of this story including a Harvard law school student, a New York Times reporter and a federal prosecutor.'

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Présentation de l'éditeur

When Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was questioned by the police at his home in an affluent neighbourhood, many people across the country reacted with surprise and disbelief. But African American men from coast to coast experienced painful recognition; ''Gatesgate'' was merely the very public manifestation of a phenomenon many black men experience regularly. Here a dozen eloquent authors tell their own personal versions of this story including a Harvard law school student, a New York Times reporter and a federal prosecutor.

Biographie de l'auteur

Gregory S. Parks, JD, PhD is an attorney who has served as a law clerk on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and on the United States Court of Appeals. He is the co-editor of Critical Race Realism; Intersections of Psychology, Race, and Law (with Shayne Jones and W. Jonathan Cardi) and co-editor of The Obamas and a (Post) Racial America (Oxford University Press, 2010).

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