The Scandal of White Complicity in US Hyper-incarceration

A Nonviolent Spirituality of White Resistance
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-59148-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 203 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 285 g

Reihe: Content and Context in Theological Ethics

The Scandal of White Complicity and US Hyper-incarceration is a groundbreaking exploration of the moral role of white people in the disproportionate incarceration of African-Americans and Latinos in the United States.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mikulich, A.

Cassidy, L.

Pfeil, M.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Prejean, Helen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents Series Editor Preface; Mary Jo IozzioForeword; Sister Helen PrejeanIntroduction: The Invisibility of White Complicity in Hyper-incarceration; Laurie Cassidy and Alex MikulichAcknowledgmentsPart I: STRUCTUREChapter 1: Hyper-Incarceration of African Americans and Latinos in Historical Context; Alex MikulichVital Prison StatisticsThe Construction of Whiteness in U.S. LawThe Enduring 'Cultural Logic' of Lynching and Three White MythsThe Emergence of the 'New Jim Crow'The Economic Perversity of 'Fortress America'Chapter 2: White Complicity in U.S. Hyper-incarceration; Alex MikulichWhite SoulThe Pathology of White Segregation: An Enduring Marker of Race in AmericaThe Historical Structuring of American SegregationWhite Habitus and the Four Walls of White ImprisonmentConclusionPart II: CULTUREChapter 3: The Myth of the Dangerous Black Man; Laurie CassidyThe Picture in Our HeadsSlavery and the Myth of the Dangerous Black ManWhite Christian Amnesia and AnamnesisChapter 4: Hip Hop and the Seditious Reinvention of the Dangerous Black Man; Laurie CassidyThe Prophetic Voice of Hip HopHip Hop and the Reinvention of Nat TurnerConclusionPart III: SPIRITUALITYChapter 5: A Spirituality of White Non-violent Resistance to the Reality of Hyper incarceration; Margaret PfeilThe Beatitudes: A Framework for a Nonviolent Spirituality of White ResistanceChapter 6: Contemplative Action: Toward Nonviolent White Resistance to Hyper-Incarceration; Margaret PfeilMaking Whiteness Visible: ComplicityAccountability and AwarenessThe Circle Process: A Public Space of AccountabilitySystemic Change: Facing the Dark Night of ImpasseConclusion Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alex Mikulich is Research Fellow on Race and Poverty at the Jesuit Social Research Institute of Loyola University New Orleans, USA. He is co-editor and contributor to Interrupting White Privilege: Catholic Theologians Break the Silence, which was awarded the College Theology Society's 2008 Book of the Year Award. Alex serves the Pax Christi USA Anti-Racism Team, is a leader of Catholics Committed to Repeal of the Death Penalty in Louisiana, and is immersed in anti-racist research and advocacy in New Orleans and Mississippi. Laurie Cassidy is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA. She is co-editor and contributor to Interrupting White Privilege: Catholic Theologians Break the Silence, which was awarded the College Theology Society's 2008 Book of the Year Award. She has been a spiritual director for over twenty years and is concerned with contemplation as a mystical political practice for personal and social transformation.Margaret Pfeil is Assistant Professor of Theology and a Fellow of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is a founding member and resident of St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker House in South Bend. She organized and served as facilitator for the conference on 'White Privilege: Implications for the Catholic University, the Church, and Theology' held at the University of Notre Dame in March 2006.