Drawn from his many years of experience in the courts, a former Supreme Court Justice reveals the shocking truth about how our judicial system discriminates against African Americans, discussing such controversial topics as the deep-seeded societal prejudices of white judges, and stressing the importance of rectifying these inequalities. Reprint.

Black Robes, White Justice: Why Our Legal System Doesn't Work for Blacks

Biographies & Memoirs

Wright, Bruce

Community & Culture

Kensington

Looks at the history of race relations in the U.S., argues that the courts are prejudiced against Blacks, and suggests ways to combat racism in America

Black Robes, White Justice

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

LYLE STUART +

The author, a New York State Supreme Court Justice and a black man, argues that our legal system is fundamentally unfair towards African Americans--and documents his assertion with many cases drawn from his long experience as a lawyer and judge. A timely and relevant subject in the aftermath of the Rodney King trials and the LA riots.

Literature & Fiction

Repetitions: Poems

Third Press International

The New York Supreme Court Justice discusses his career in the American legal system, his sometimes turbulent personal life, his views on justice, his often controversial decisions, and what it is like to be an African American in an unjust white society.

Black Justice in a White World: A Memoir

Legal Theory & Systems

UNKNO

This is a book of verse by one of the most controversial judges ever to sit on the New York bench. It is his first published collection in nearly two decades, and it is his best. 
The moods of the poems range from warmly evocative memories of Paris living to bitter denunciations of the two tier American justice, one for the white population, one for the blacks. Some of the material offers stinging couplets about the commercialism of Christmas; others contain caustic comments about current life. 
The verse represents Judge Wright's personal choices of more than half a century of writing. In the interim he co-edited (with Langston Hughes) the anthology From the Shaken Tower as well as two books dealing with justice. 
Readers may find some of the verse disturbing, some romantic, some amusing, and all compelling.

Love Hangs upon an Empty Door: The Poetry of Bruce Wright

Poetry

B & B Audio Inc

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