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Racial purity and dangerous bodies : moral pollution, Black lives, and the struggle for justice
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Racial purity and dangerous bodies : moral pollution, Black lives, and the struggle for justice / Rima Vesely-Flad.
ISBN
9781506420493
1506420494
Publication
Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2017]
Copyright Notice Date
©2017
Physical Description
xlv, 225 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary
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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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 22, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index.
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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