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Racial purity and dangerous bodies : moral pollution, Black lives, and the struggle for justice /
At the center of contemporary struggles over aggressive policing practices is an assumed association in U.S. culture of blackness with criminality. Rima L. Vesely-Flad examines the religious and philosophical constructs of the black body in U.S. society, examining racialized ideas about purity and p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
Fortress Press,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | At the center of contemporary struggles over aggressive policing practices is an assumed association in U.S. culture of blackness with criminality. Rima L. Vesely-Flad examines the religious and philosophical constructs of the black body in U.S. society, examining racialized ideas about purity and pollution as they have developed historically and as they are institutionalized today in racially disproportionate policing and mass incarceration. These systems keep threatening populations in a constant state of harassment and tension so that they are unable to "pollute" the morals of mainstream so |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xlv, 225 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781506420509 1506420508 |