"In all, we conducted more than four hundred interviews to craft this portrait of Floyd's distinctive American existence, going deep into Floyd's family and friends and the atmospheres he lived in..."
"Floyd repeatedly found his dreams diminished, deferred and delayed - in no small part because of the color of his skin."
"The book puts his life in the context of being Black in America, particularly in the time of a war on drugs..."
"Between 1986 and 1999, the number of young White Texans imprisoned for drug offenses declined by 9 percent, while the number of Black youths locked up on drug charges increased by 360 percent..."
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