Full Description
Race, Africana Communication, and Criminal Justice Reform: A Reflexive and Intersectional Analysis of Adaptive Vitality discusses issues and themes surrounding communication, social media, online protests, policing, criminal justice reform, and freedom of speech. Honoring the legacy of Dr. James Conyers, this volume offers analyses grounded in Africana praxis and communication principles that embrace social justice and challenge systems based on race, arguing for the importance of establishing networks of communication that benefit all people. Collectively, these interdisciplinary chapters extend the research on race at the intersections of social media and social justice. Scholars of Africana studies, communication, criminal justice, education, and sociology will find this work particularly useful.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Potholes in my Lawn: Rooting out Racism in the Criminal Justice System
Chapter 3: Educational and Criminal Justice Reform: Transformative Justice Reform by Disrupting, Dismantling, and Reversing the Disproportionate Channels of People of Color into the School to Prison Pipeline
Chapter 4: Social Media Communication and Networks: The Ongoing #BlackLivesMatter Struggle
Chapter 5: Black Movement in White Spaces: How Youth Online Protests Challenge "No-Excuses" Charter Practices
Chapter 6: Today's U.S. Supreme Court and the Future of the First Amendment: Donald J. Trump, U.S. Freedom of Expression, and Possible Nullification of New York Times v. Sullivan
Chapter 7: Speak It into Existence: An Afrocentric Examination of the Spoken Word as Energetic Human Potential & Social Justice
Chapter 8: Pronouncing Sentences: Producing Narratives of Incarceration and Black Men
Chapter 9: Intergroup Dialogue at the Intersection of Difference: Social Interactions as a Model for Intergroup Understanding, Relationships, and Action
Chapter 10: Conclusion: The Conyers Scholarly Legacy
