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John Graham • Plantation Theory: The Black Professional's Struggle Between Freedom and Security
unsullied.
Justin Torres • Blackouts: A Novel
Making a charge according to the law of those you indict is a dangerous business.
Ta-Nehisi Coates • The Message
Police Chief E. Francis Riggs
Nelson Denis • War Against All Puerto Ricans
The hypocrisy of this final assignment was a fitting coda to the symphony of sleaze and slaughter that the United States bestowed on Puerto Rico in the name of good government. Winship was walking tall, waving documents, pointing fingers, trying others for their atrocities.
Nelson Denis • War Against All Puerto Ricans
were known as “straw buyers”—might not exist, or might be victims of identity theft. Or they might be Sonny Kim’s partners in mortgage fraud. So might the brokers, appraisers, notaries, title agents, and ultimately the bankers who were in on the deals, some of them showing up again and again. Everyone was making money on Sonny Kim’s business, and t
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