Workin' on the Chain Gang: Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History (Library of Contemporary Thought) Control Systems and The Problem of Pain

and The Problem of Pain

and the far-reaching consequences of the transformed legal landscape

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Workin' on the Chain Gang: Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History (Library of Contemporary Thought) Control Systems and The Problem of PainSlavery was outlawed in this country more than a century ago, but Americans still wear chains. Each one of us, black and white alike, is shackled by a system that values money over humanity, power over truth, conformity over creativity. Race has undeniably made the problem worse, but race is not the root of the problem. Indeed, as black novelist and activist Walter Mosley brilliantly argues in this impassioned call to arms, though the chains might be