8 results for '"Reginald Dwayne Betts"'

Winner of the NAACP Image Award and finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize “A powerful work of lyric art.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice In fierce, agile poems, Felon...

MacArthur fellows Reginald Dwayne Betts and Titus Kaphar present a stunning literary and artistic collaboration that confronts the abuses of the criminal justice system.Throughout their award-winning...

An exquisite body of work celebrating the centennial of one of the most important African-American poets of the twentieth century. Robert Hayden was one of the most important American poets of the...

By turns hilarious, candid, and heartbreaking, this powerful book takes the straitjacket off Black history.A refreshing, insightful, sacrilegious take on African American history, Crazy as Hell...

Reginald Dwayne Betts is our foremost chronicler of the ways prison shapes and transforms American life. In Doggerel, Betts examines this subject through a more prosaic--but equally rich--lens: dogs...

“This is one of the best books on writing that I've ever read. I couldn't put it down.”—Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowThe Sentences That Create Us provides a road map for incarcerated...

A landmark work of intimate reporting on inequality, race, class, and violence, told through a murder and intersecting lives in an iconic American neighborhood.One New Haven summer evening in 2006, a...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the...