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Stakes Is High - Life After the American Dream (Hardcover)
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Stakes Is High - Life After the American Dream (Hardcover)
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"We are better than this" has been the rallying cry since Donald
Trump was elected. But as New York Times-bestselling author Mychal
Denzel Smith shows, Americans are too comfortable imagining our
greatness. We like to believe in the rightness of our path and the
inevitability of choosing our better angels. But historically,
we've only come close to living up to the ideals we profess after
we've been dragged, kicking and screaming, toward justice. Growth
only happens when we confront our deceptions and our own complicity
in them. In Stakes Is High, Smith exposes the contradictions at the
heart of American life - between patriotism and justice, between
freedom and inequality, incarceration, police violence. In a series
of incisive essays, Smith holds us to account individually and as a
nation. He examines his own shortcomings, grapples with the anxiety
of feeling stuck and looks in new directions for the tools to build
a just America. He questions whether Martin Luther King, Jr. can
ever really be the hero we need in our time, untangles the
persistent cultural power of Bill Cosby and weighs the value of
police and prison abolition. Stakes Is High establishes Mychal
Denzel Smith as a voice to be heeded as we prepare for the fight
ahead.
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