Chokehold: Policing Black Men

Finalist for the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency's Media for a Just Society Awards   Nominated for the 49th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction)   A 2017 Washington Post Notable Book   A Kirkus Best Book of 2017   "Butler has hit his stride. This is a meditation, a sonnet, a legal brief, a poetry slam and a dissertation that represents the full bloom of his early thesis: The justice system does not work for blacks, particularly black men."--The Washington Post   "The most readable and provocative account of the consequences of the war on drugs since Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow . . . ."--The New York Times Book Review   "Powerful . . . deeply informed from a legal standpoint and yet in some ways still highly personal"--The Times Literary Supplement (London)   With the eloquence of Ta-Nehisi Coates and the persuasive research of Michelle Alexander, a former federal prosecutor explains how the system really works, and how to disrupt it