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Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town

Nate Blakeslee

A devastating critique of Texas' judicial system and the nation's drug laws, and a riveting legal thriller about the inspirational men and women in and around the town of Tulia, Texas, who refused to let injustice stand.

True Crime & JusticeTrue Crime & Justice · medium confidenceTrue Crime & Justice81 signalsLlm Classifier: True Crime & Justice -> True Crime & JusticeGoogle Books: History -> HistoryKeyword Classifier: Gender & Sexuality -> Gender & SexualityCrime, Policing & ViolenceGender & FeminismHuman Rights & International LawLaw & Legal Change

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize2006WinnerSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    • Tulia, Texas90%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    The book argues that Texas’s judicial system and the nation’s drug laws drive injustice, which local legal actors resist by refusing to let wrongdoing stand.

    Model confidence 62%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 78%.