Broken Scales: Race and the Crisis of Justice in a Divided America

by Tom Diaz

Book Overview

Humans are a species that classifies. We arrange the flow of the things and events that we see and experience, place them into categories, and erect boundaries around those categories. Among the boundaries that we erect are those that we put around groups of "other" human beings. The evil side of human classification of other human beings is that we sometimes create false categories of other people, as is often the case in racial, ethnic, and religious...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1538138506
• ISBN13: 9781538138502
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"