Full Description
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.
Contents
Table of Contents
Series Editor Preface; Mary Jo Iozzio
Foreword; Sister Helen Prejean
Introduction: The Invisibility of White Complicity in Hyper-incarceration; Laurie Cassidy and Alex Mikulich
Acknowledgments
Part I: STRUCTURE
Chapter 1: Hyper-Incarceration of African Americans and Latinos in Historical Context; Alex Mikulich
Vital Prison Statistics
The Construction of Whiteness in U.S. Law
The Enduring 'Cultural Logic' of Lynching and Three White Myths
The Emergence of the 'New Jim Crow'
The Economic Perversity of 'Fortress America'
Chapter 2: White Complicity in U.S. Hyper-incarceration; Alex Mikulich
White Soul
The Pathology of White Segregation: An Enduring Marker of Race in America
The Historical Structuring of American Segregation
White Habitus and the Four Walls of White Imprisonment
Conclusion
Part II: CULTURE
Chapter 3: The Myth of the Dangerous Black Man; Laurie Cassidy
The Picture in Our Heads
Slaveryand the Myth of the Dangerous Black Man
White Christian Amnesia and Anamnesis
Chapter 4: Hip Hop and the Seditious Reinvention of the Dangerous Black Man; Laurie Cassidy
The Prophetic Voice of Hip Hop
Hip Hop and the Reinvention of Nat Turner
Conclusion
Part III: SPIRITUALITY
Chapter 5: A Spirituality of White Non-violent Resistance to the Reality of Hyper incarceration; Margaret Pfeil
The Beatitudes: A Framework for a Nonviolent Spirituality of White Resistance
Chapter 6: Contemplative Action: Toward Nonviolent White Resistance to Hyper-
Incarceration; Margaret Pfeil
Making Whiteness Visible: Complicity
Accountability and Awareness
The Circle Process: A Public Space of Accountability
Systemic Change: Facing the Dark Night of Impasse
Conclusion
Index
