"A timely and impassioned argument for social justice."

Kirkus Reviews

"This readable and thoughtful work will appeal to readers interested in civil rights and criminal justice, and is especially insightful."

William D. Pederson - Library Journal

"Important, persuasive.…[A Colony in a Nation] can help Americans begin to heal."

Publishers Weekly

"Chris Hayes’ ominous account of what’s ailing America… [offers a] rare view into a wide racial and class cross-section of society."

Ryan Cooper - The Week

"An up-to-date (and masterfully interwoven) blend of statistics, history, and analysis."

Peter C. Baker - Pacific Standard

"Hayes’s forceful analysis…compel[s] readers to wrestle with some very tough questions about the nature of American democracy."

Khalil Gibran Muhammad - New York Times Book Review

"[Hayes is] the young left’s most erudite and urgent interpreter."

Rachel Maddow

"[P]erhaps the first significant theorization on race of the Trump era."

Matthew Pulver - Salon

"A Colony in a Nation is a highly original analysis of America’s arbitrary and erratic criminal justice system. Indeed, by Hayes’s lights, the system is not erratic at all—it treats one group of Americans as citizens, and another as the colonized. This is an essential and groundbreaking text in the effort to understand how American criminal justice went so badly awry."

Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me

"Terrific and really important."

Rebecca Traister