Twelve Angry Men: True Stories of Being a Black Man in America Today - Tapa dura

A dozen black me from all levels of society--from a Harvard law school student tackled by security guards on the streets of Manhattan to a bicyclist trailed by police cars in Austin, Texas--offer first-person accounts of racial profiling

Editors:

Gregory S. Parks is an attorney in private practice and a co-editor of Critical Race Realism(The New Press). He lives in Washington, D.C.

Matthew W. Hughey is an assistant professor of sociology at Mississippi State University, where he lives, and is the co-editor ofThe Obamas and a (Post) Racial America.

Lani Guinier, a professor at Harvard Law School, was the first black woman ever to head the civil rights division of the Justice Department. The author of critically acclaimed bookThe Miner's Canary, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The contributors are:

M.K. Asante
M.K. Asante is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and professor. Asante earned a B.A. in Africana Studies and English from Lafayette College, and an M.F.A. in Screenwriting from the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television. He is the author of the booksIt's Bigger than Hip-Hop, Beautiful. And Ugly Too, and Like Water Running Off My Back. His films are the feature documentariesThe Black Candle, 500 Years Later, and Motherland. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Language Arts at Morgan State University.

Bryonn Bain
Bryonn Bain, MA, JD, founder of the Blackout Arts Collective, and a graduate of Harvard Law School, has taught courses at New York University, Brooklyn College, Columbia University, The New School, Long Island University, Rikers Island Academy, and in prisons nationwide using the arts and popular culture to examine critically the prison crisis in America. He appeared on60 Minutes, after his personal story of racial profiling received a record response inThe Village Voice, the nation's most widely read progressive weekly newspaper. The acclaimed multimedia stage productionLyrics from Lockdown (Official Selection NYC Hip Hop Theater Festival) weaves his story of wrongful imprisonment with the poetry and letters of Death Row survivor Nanon Williams through hip hop, theater, spoken word and song.

Paul Butler
Paul Butler, JD, PhD, is a law professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He teaches in the areas of criminal law, civil rights, and jurisprudence. His scholarship has been published in the Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and UCLA Law Review, among other places. He has clerked for the U.S. District Court in New York, and worked in private practice specializing in white collar criminal defense and civil litigation. Following private practice, Professor Butler served as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice, where his specialty was public corruption. He also served as a special assistant U.S. attorney, prosecuting drug and gun cases before deciding not to work inside the legal system. He is now the country’s leading expert on jury nullification, and provides legal commentary for CNN, NPR, and Fox. He has written for theWashington Post, the Boston Globe, and the Los Angeles Times. He is the award-winning author ofLet’s Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice (The New Press).

Devon W. Carbado
Devon Carbado, JD, is a law professor at the UCLA School of Law. He teaches Constitutional Criminal Procedure, Constitutional Law, Critical Race Theory, and Criminal Adjudication. He has twice been elected Professor of the Year and is the 2003 recipient of the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is a former director of the Critical Race Studies Program at UCLA Law and a faculty associate of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. He is also a recipient of the Fletcher Foundation Fellowship, which is awarded to scholars whose work furthers the goals of Brown v. Board of Education. Professor Carbado graduated from Harvard Law School in 1994, where he was the Editor-in-Chief ofThe Harvard Black L

Gregory S. Parks, PhD, JD (left), is a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals, He is a co-editor of Critical Race Realism (The New Press) and lives in Washington, D.C.
Matthew W. Hughey, PhD (right), is an assistant professor of sociology at Mississippi State University, where he lives. He is the co-editor of The Obamas and a (Post) Racial America.