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This book is about the kinds of compromises made by a small but influential group of people from minoritized groups in the United States as they have entered segregated institutions in highly visible positions. People in the overseer class wield enormous institutional power, even necropolitical power over who lives and who dies; it's just that their power is predicated upon repressing other people who look (or speak\/have sex\/come from places) like them.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe most obvious contemporary overseer is the Black police officer. \u003ci\u003eThe Overseer Class\u003c\/i\u003e begins with this quote from James Baldwin from 1967:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The poor, of whatever color, do not trust the law and certainly have no reason to, and God knows we didn't. 'If you must call a cop,' we said in those days, 'for God's sake, make sure it's a white one.' 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