Three books. Three different genres. One continuous argument: the American government — its law enforcement apparatus, its medical institutions, its housing agencies — enacted deliberate, documented harm against Black Americans. Not in a distant past requiring reconciliation. In living memory. With files still in the archives.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X gives you a sense of the surveillance state through one man's extraordinary life. Medical Apartheid gives you four centuries of medical exploitation, documented case by case, institution by institution. The Color of Law gives you the federal paper trail that engineered residential segregation and called it private choice. Read individually, each book makes a complete argument. Read together, they become something none of them is alone: a full prosecution of the American state's deliberate, coordinated, ongoing project of harm — and the question of what we are supposed to do with the fact that it happened.
This kit was built for readers who finished all three books and felt the argument accumulating into something larger than any single volume could contain. It treats these books as a curriculum — cross-book discussion questions that move between all three institutions put on trial, and activities designed to bring the argument out of the archive and into the room.
What's Inside:
✦ About This Kit — The paper trail as shared methodology, and what this curriculum produces that no single book can produce alone
✦ What These Books Are Really About — Book-specific anchors for all three, plus the combined thesis that emerges when they're read together
✦ Discussion Questions — 14 questions across three tiers, from book-specific entry points to the cross-book connections to the unresolvable questions none of the three authors answers alone
✦ The Institutions on Trial — The FBI/COINTELPRO, the American Medical Establishment, and the Federal Housing Administration — prosecution/defense structure, hard positions required, no neutral stances allowed
✦ Activities — Verdict Vote, The Paper Trail Itself, The Cost Ledger Extended, The Institutional Continuity Exercise, and The Witness Statement (private writing, shared only as much as you want)
✦ Quote Prompts — Six prompts drawing from all three books, including one that asks readers to find where the books finish each other's sentences
✦ Spoiler Corner — Host-only escalation questions, including: if the pattern of managed inadequacy holds, what are these books actually for?
✦ For the Host — Facilitation notes for a three-book curriculum, timing flow, and a good host note for two very different kinds of rooms
Details: — Instant download PDF, print-ready — 20+ pages — Personal and single-group use — Fan-created guide, not affiliated with or endorsed by any of the authors or their publishers — Individual discussion guides for The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Medical Apartheid, and The Color of Law are also available separately in the shop
Licensing for classrooms, libraries, and educational programs is available. If you plan to use this guide for a class, reading program, or institutional setting, please contact the shop owner to arrange an appropriate license.
This kit was built for the room that finishes all three books and doesn't know what to do with what they now know — together. That's not a comfortable place to be. It's exactly the right place to start.
Three books. Three different genres. One continuous argument: the American government — its law enforcement apparatus, its medical institutions, its housing agencies — enacted deliberate, documented harm against Black Americans. Not in a distant past requiring reconciliation. In living memory. With files still in the archives.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X gives you a sense of the surveillance state through one man's extraordinary life. Medical Apartheid gives you four centuries of medical exploitation, documented case by case, institution by institution. The Color of Law gives you the federal paper trail that engineered residential segregation and called it private choice. Read individually, each book makes a complete argument. Read together, they become something none of them is alone: a full prosecution of the American state's deliberate, coordinated, ongoing project of harm — and the question of what we are supposed to do with the fact that it happened.
This kit was built for readers who finished all three books and felt the argument accumulating into something larger than any single volume could contain. It treats these books as a curriculum — cross-book discussion questions that move between all three institutions put on trial, and activities designed to bring the argument out of the archive and into the room.
What's Inside:
✦ About This Kit — The paper trail as shared methodology, and what this curriculum produces that no single book can produce alone
✦ What These Books Are Really About — Book-specific anchors for all three, plus the combined thesis that emerges when they're read together
✦ Discussion Questions — 14 questions across three tiers, from book-specific entry points to the cross-book connections to the unresolvable questions none of the three authors answers alone
✦ The Institutions on Trial — The FBI/COINTELPRO, the American Medical Establishment, and the Federal Housing Administration — prosecution/defense structure, hard positions required, no neutral stances allowed
✦ Activities — Verdict Vote, The Paper Trail Itself, The Cost Ledger Extended, The Institutional Continuity Exercise, and The Witness Statement (private writing, shared only as much as you want)
✦ Quote Prompts — Six prompts drawing from all three books, including one that asks readers to find where the books finish each other's sentences
✦ Spoiler Corner — Host-only escalation questions, including: if the pattern of managed inadequacy holds, what are these books actually for?
✦ For the Host — Facilitation notes for a three-book curriculum, timing flow, and a good host note for two very different kinds of rooms
Details: — Instant download PDF, print-ready — 20+ pages — Personal and single-group use — Fan-created guide, not affiliated with or endorsed by any of the authors or their publishers — Individual discussion guides for The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Medical Apartheid, and The Color of Law are also available separately in the shop
Licensing for classrooms, libraries, and educational programs is available. If you plan to use this guide for a class, reading program, or institutional setting, please contact the shop owner to arrange an appropriate license.
This kit was built for the room that finishes all three books and doesn't know what to do with what they now know — together. That's not a comfortable place to be. It's exactly the right place to start.
