America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

"Not since Angela Davis's 2003 book, Are Prisons Obsolete?, has a scholar so persuasively challenged our conventional understanding of the criminal legal system." --Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., Washington Post From one of our top historians, a groundbreaking story of policing and "riots" that shatters our understanding of the post-civil rights era.