Our Democracy’s Founding Ideals Were False When They Were Written. Black Americans Have Fought to Make Them True

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction xi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. New York Times Magazine in partnership with ProPublica 1
6. False Witness 3
7. We’ve Normalized Prison 45
8. Can We Build a Better Women’s Prison? 51
9. Epidemic of Fear 67
10. Las Marthas 101
11. The Schoolteacher and the Genocide 133
12. Unlike Any Other 169
13. Jerry’s Dirt 197
14. Elizabeth Warren’s Classroom Strategy 235
15. Tactile Art 257
16. India: Intimations of an Ending 271
17. When Disability Is a Toxic Legacy and The Ugly Beautiful and Other Failings of Disability Representation and What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Mental Health and Medication 301
18. Kanye West’s Sunday Service Is Full of Longing and Self- Promotion and Love, Death, and Begging for Celebrities to Kill You and E. Jean Carroll’s Accusation Against Donald Trump, and the Raising, and Lowering, of the Bar 321
19. Nothing Sacred and An Assault on the Tongue and Interlopers 339
20. Our Democracy’s Founding Ideals Were False When They Were Written. Black Americans Have Fought to Make Them True 359
21. Fight the Ship 383
22. Under the Ackee Tree 441
23. Permissions 463
24. List of Contributors 467