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"America, Goddam is an impeccably researched and intensely told history of the terror, of the violence, of the dehumanization Black women and girls have faced, battled, and resisted. It gripped me, shocked me, angered me, enlightened me, moved me, transformed me. We are better because of this book."--Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist "America, Goddam is the book we have been waiting for. A trenchant examination of the history and consequence of the particular overlap of anti-Blackness and misogyny--misogynoir--that has worked to undermine the life chances of all working-class and poor Black women. Unraveling easy narratives about progress and change in American history, America, Goddam's focus on twenty-first-century iterations of the oppression and exploitation of Black women highlights both continuity and change. Treva Lindsey provides the historical and analytical tools necessary to make sense of the endless media and scholastic narratives of abuse and neglect in the coverage of Black women's stories. With extraordinary insight and elemental passion, America, Goddam is a critical contribution to the evolving cannon of Black feminist texts and scholarship."--Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective "This is not a memoir, but it's personal. This is not journalism, but it reports. This is not fiction, but you'll wonder how it can be true. This is not a bedtime story, but it will leave you tired. America, Goddam details the particular violence and specific cruelties Black women and girls endure in the United States. Lindsey maps the policies, practices, and deeply held beliefs that strip Black girls and women of their homes, their health, their freedom, their futures, and their lives. Refusing to maintain scholarly neutrality, Lindsey pours out the spiritual agony of bearing witness (and withness) to the destruction of Black girlhood. She dares her readers to stay present intellectually and emotionally even as she performs a bloody, historical autopsy of American misogynoir, which forces Black women to live the unlivable and compels them to specialize in the wholly impossible. It is not an easy book, but it's necessary. And in the end Lindsey challenges you to choose hope."--Melissa Harris-Perry, Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University, media host, and author of Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes and Black Women in America "America, Goddam is a brilliant and powerful book. With scholarly rigor and refreshing clarity, Treva B. Lindsey breaks down the various forms of violence that Black women and girls have been forced to negotiate in the United States. While theoretically rich and historically grounded, this book is also a deeply personal and beautifully vulnerable testimony. Everyone who reads this text will be informed, challenged, inspired, and energized."--Tarana Burke, author of Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement "America, Goddam is far more profoundly singular than any so-called intervention. It is more dynamic than any of our literary monuments. Lindsey manages to recast racial terror by finding the rhythm created by Black women tasked with outrunning and resisting racialized gendered terror in the United States. America, Goddam should make all of us who purport to write through racial gendered terror and liberation revise everything we thought. I'm gutted by its brilliance."--Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy and How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America "Written with insight, care, and verve, American, Goddam provides piercing insight into present-day movements including #BlackLives Matter, #SayHer Name, and #MeToo. Lindsey's voice orients us to the book's concerns through the lens of her own life experiences, making clear that America, Goddam achieves its effect through a brilliant and unbounded sense of how we can and should arrive at understandings about the origins, forces, and possibilities for resisting violence."--Martha S. Jones, author of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

"This beautifully written but heartrending book tells what happens when refugees needing rescue from violence come to America. Instead of security, the refugees encounter a resettlement system that leaves the promise of humanitarianism unfulfilled and pushes them into the ranks of the unprotected working poor. An eye-opening, deeply unsettling account."--Roger Waldinger, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles "Sharply analyzed, richly detailed, and intricately humane, We Thought It Would Be Heaven exposes the bewildering maze of rules and regulations that trap refugees in Kafkaesque fashion as they navigate the US bureaucracies charged with their resettlement. Highly recommended for everyone, especially for scholars, policymakers, and anyone who cares about the lives of some of the most vulnerable groups in society today."--Cecilia Menjívar, Dorothy L. Meier Social Equities Chair, University of California, Los Angeles "This extraordinary book exposes how the gap between the American dream and its reality is, for many refugees, filled with administrative burdens. With We Thought It Would Be Heaven, Blair Sackett and Annette Lareau have written a book that is not just exhaustively researched and theoretically rich, but urgent and actionable. It demands both our attention and our capacity to rethink how to ensure that the most vulnerable immigrants are not lost in a bureaucratic maze."--Donald Moynihan, McCourt Chair at the McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University "Fleeing the deadliest wars since World War II, refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo were the top nationality group resettled in the United States from 2014 to 2022. Blair Sackett and Annette Lareau follow forty-four Congolese families who came to America thinking it "would be heaven," but instead have encountered a bare-bones and hollowed-out resettlement infrastructure, not to mention a bewildering and disconnected maze of American financial, educational, social, and legal institutions that, built upon the twin logics of cost-cutting and racialized surveillance, presents hurdle after bureaucratic hurdle to block their progress. Only with the most committed of cultural brokers and institutional advocates do a few of these families manage to get ahead. We Thought It Would Be Heaven is a must-read for anyone looking for an understanding of the dismal state of US refugee admissions and for fresh ideas on what can be done to improve the outcomes."--Helen B. Marrow, Associate Professor of Sociology, Tufts University "As the former leader of one of the bureaucracies that the refugee families in Sackett and Lareau's book traversed, I can only hope that my peers will have the wisdom to read this book. The United States can fulfill its promise of being a beacon to those fleeing persecution only by heeding this book's lessons."--León Rodríguez, Former Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services "We Thought It Would Be Heaven eloquently shows the many challenges and resources needed for refugee families in navigating different institutions in America to start a new life after having spent years surviving in refugee camps and civil wars. Its captivating and often heartbreaking accounts of these families' struggles reveal how American institutions meant to help any family in need can end up hurting families through a series of seemingly innocuous yet endless bureaucratic missteps and hurdles."--Leslie Paik, author of Trapped in a Maze: How Social Control Institutions Drive Family Poverty and Inequality > "This deeply humanist ethnography explains how refugees who fled persecution confront new challenges as they resettle in the United States. We Thought It Would Be Heaven follows four Congolese families as they fight their way through bureaucratic circles of hell to make a new American life."--David Scott FitzGerald, coauthor of The Refugee System: A Sociological Approach "The book is beautifully written, with vivid and richly detailed portraits of refugee families and the bureaucratic challenges they encounter in the United States. It offers fresh insights into how institutions shape refugee resettlement in the U.S."--Nazli Kibria, Boston University

"Justin Brooks exposes the deep flaws in our legal system that have unjustly led so many into prison and onto death row. How can we trust such a system to take away the lives of our citizens? We cannot."--Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking "If you thought it couldn't happen to you, think again. You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent is a fascinating and chilling account of innocent people wrongly imprisoned, written by an attorney who has dedicated his life to freeing the wrongly accused. Brooks's new book takes you to the front lines of this battle, where he makes clear with case after compelling case that our justice system has a long way to go before it can be a just system."--Edward Humes, journalist and author of Burned: A Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn't "If you've never imagined that you could be imprisoned for a crime you didn't commit--I sure didn't--Brooks is here to reveal the truth. But more important, he draws upon his decades of experience fighting these nightmarish injustices to reveal what we can do to spare innocent lives in the future."--Amanda Knox, author of Waiting to Be Heard "This compelling and engaging book shows how it really could happen to you: you could be convicted of a crime you did not commit. Brooks describes how an early case of an innocent woman who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to death transformed his career. Having since founded the California Innocence Project, and worked on scores of innocence cases, Brooks describes powerful accounts of how race, class, bad lawyering, and even outright lies contribute to wrongful convictions."--Brandon L. Garrett, author of Autopsy of a Crime Lab "Brooks has written an absorbing, smart, and important book that covers the landscape of wrongful convictions in the American criminal justice system and the path forward to preventing them. You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent is a narrative work of social science and policy translation at its best, a compelling, pragmatic, and invaluable journey to better understanding and rectifying the law's ultimate nightmare--convicting the innocent. This book will be of interest to anyone who is concerned with the fairness of our trial procedures and the reliability of the evidence that is used to secure plea bargains and convictions in criminal cases. It should be required reading for all prosecutors and judges, not to mention police as well as criminal defense attorneys."--Richard A. Leo, author of Police Interrogation and American Justice "Brooks has been on the front lines of the fight to free the innocent from prison for decades. His compelling book shows how easy it is for innocent people to go to prison and how hard it is to free them. You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent should be required reading for every law enforcement officer and every prosecutor in the United States and around the world."--Jeremy DeConcini, former Special Agent, US Department of Homeland Security "Brooks's trek from San Diego to Sacramento is symbolic of his dedication to his clients, his commitment to freeing the wrongly convicted, and his optimism despite overwhelming obstacles in the journey for justice. His book is a litany of examples of how our criminal justice system makes wrongful convictions so easy and setting them aside so difficult. Brooks stands with those warriors who persist in the fight for justice no matter how long the effort or how many defeats along the way. They battle not only for all those wrongfully convicted but for all of us who need protectors of our rights and freedom. Every law student dreams of freeing an innocent person; Brooks lives that dream."--Lee Sarokin, former US Circuit Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit "You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent is the kind of book that robs you of your peace. It unpacks--tale after heartbreaking tale--how 'court guilt' can blow the doors off judicial safeguards and overwhelm innocence with ease. Long before your jaws rehinge, the truth hits: guilt often comes down to gamesmanship, we live a hairsbreadth from the unthinkable, you might go to prison even if you haven't done a thing."--Catherine Pugh, Attorney, formerly with the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section

Reprint. Originally published in 1911 by Universal Edition. This translation was originally published in 1978 by University of California Press and was based on the third edition (1922) of the German text.