Racial purity and dangerous bodies : moral pollution, Black lives, and the struggle for justice /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Vesely-Flad, Rima (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Crime and race > United States.
Black people > Race identity.
Black lives matter movement.
Criminalité et race > États-Unis.
Mouvement Black Lives Matter.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Liberation.
Crime and race.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • part I. Race and moral pollution
  • 1. A socio-historical review of race and morality
  • 2. Constructions of character and criminality in nineteenth-century US penal systems
  • 3. Institutionalizing pollution boundaries : policing, imprisonment, and reentry
  • part II. Racial justice movements
  • 4. Policing dark bodies in polluted spaces : stop and frisk in New York City, 1993-2013
  • 5. Confronting pollution : protest as the performance of purity in the Black Lives Matter movement
  • 6. Seeing Jesus in Michael Brown : new theological : constructions of blackness
  • 7. Conclusion : reconstructing the image of the polluted black body.

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