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A New York Times bestseller

[Nobody] examines the interlocking mechanisms that systematically disadvantage 'those marked as poor black brown immigrant queer or trans'those in Hills words who are Nobodies...A worthy and necessary addition to the contemporary canon of civil rights literature. The New York Times

An impassioned analysis of headline-making cases&Timely controversial and bound to stir already heated discussion. Kirkus Reviews

A thought-provoking and important analysis of oppression recommended for those seeking clarity on current events. Library Journal

Unarmed citizens shot by police. Drinking water turned to poison. Mass incarcerations. Weve heard the individual stories. Now a leading public intellectual and acclaimed journalist offers a powerful paradigm-shifting analysis of Americas current state of emergency finding in these events a larger and more troubling truth about race class and what it means to be Nobody.

Protests in Ferguson?? Missouri and across the United States following the death of Michael Brown revealed something far deeper than a passionate display of age-old racial frustrations. They unveiled a public chasm that has been growing for years?? as America has consistently and intentionally denied significant segments of its population access to full freedom and prosperity.

In Nobody?? scholar and journalist Marc Lamont Hill presents a powerful and thought-provoking analysis of race and class by examining a growing crisis in America: the existence of a group of citizens who are made vulnerable?? exploitable and disposable through the machinery of unregulated capitalism?? public policy?? and social practice. These are the people considered ??Nobody?? in contemporary America. Through on-the-ground reporting and careful research?? Hill shows how this Nobody class