ALT Publishers Marketplace Deal Report Category: Non-fiction: Narrative THE OVERSEER CLASS By Steven W. Thrasher Imprint: Amistad February 28, 2024 Inaugural Daniel H. Renberg Chair at Northwestern University Steven W. Thrasher PhD, CPT'S THE OVERSEER CLASS: REPRESENTATION AS REPRESSION, analyzing Black police officers, gay corporate managers, and other "overseers" to understand how a small but influential class of people from minoritized backgrounds has amassed power in the United States by impeding their own people; as they've entered segregated institutions, these gatekeepers have not opened the doors of liberation for other Black, migrant and LGBTQ people like them; rather, their representation has repressed attempts and maintained inequality, to Abby West at Amistad, in a good deal, by Tanya McKinnon at McKinnon Literary (world).