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White Man's Justice
by Donald Goines
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Holloway House (2000-06-01)
ISBN: 087067885X
EAN: 9787870678850
Dewy Decimal #: 813
Mass Market Paperback: 240 pages
SKU: MM2604
Condition: Very Good
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Goines' classic novel of prison life, it has been called "one of the most revealing books ever written about prison life and the bigotry built into the system." This is the story of Chester Himes, who thought he was the baddest man to come down the street. Behind prison walls he was nothing more than fresh meat.
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Customer Reviews
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Deter kids from JAIL producing choices
Rating  (5)
Date: 2009-01-06
Once read, I believe this story will have your younger ones rethinking their view of acceptable consequences for illegal activities.
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White Man's Justice, Black Man's Grief
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-03-13
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book seems so real w/all the things that have happened in America and how so much of it is still going on after all these years. I loved it!!!!!!!!
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real story
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-02-17
1 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
I really like this book it seemed like a true life story. I like all Donald Goines books it stories all seem realistic like he just talking about himself.
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A page turner!!
Rating  (4)
Date: 2004-12-12
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is the 5th book I have read by Mr. Goines. While this is not my favorite(Whoreson), this is still an excellent read. I was able to complete the book in 1 day! So often televsion shows and books sugar-coat prison life, this book is so real it makes you believe you are actually serving time with the others. Donald Goines has a way of dragging the reader into each book. It's sad that his collection only has 14 books. I must say he and Zane are neck and neck in the race of becmoing my favorite author!
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A real-life look inside the judicial system
Rating (5)
Date: 2004-09-21
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
In this story, like his others, Donald Goines succeeded in painting a clear, vivid, and lively picture of life behind bars from the black man's point of view during that time. If you really take in the message Goines gets across, you'll see it's much more than a man complaining about this, that, the man not giving him a break, etc. Chester (the main character) was fully aware of his crimes and knew he would be punished. The severity, however, is what got to him, and really set the story in motion. The supporting cast Goines brings is terrific; later on in the story Chester and a friend of his befriend a white inmate, and while everything is cool between the three of them, you can see the tension mount when it's time for two of them to go to the parole board and see about their releases. A story this authentic and true can only be told by someone who's either lived it, or has been around it, and Goines more than qualified to do the job.
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