The Scandal of White Complicity in US Hyper-Incarceration: A Nonviolent Spirituality of White Resistance

ISBN-13: 9781137591487 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 219 str.

Alex Mikulich;Laurie M. Cassidy;Margaret Pfeil

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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.

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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 Slavery and 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

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Alex Mikulich is Research Fellow on Race and Poverty at the Jesuit Social Research Institute of Loyola University New Orleans, USA. He is co-editor and contributor to Interrupting White Privilege: Catholic Theologians Break the Silence, which was awarded the College Theology Society's 2008 Book of the Year Award. Alex serves the Pax Christi USA Anti-Racism Team, is a leader of Catholics Committed to Repeal of the Death Penalty in Louisiana, and is immersed in anti-racist research and advocacy in New Orleans and Mississippi. Laurie Cassidy is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA. She is co-editor and contributor to Interrupting White Privilege: Catholic Theologians Break the Silence, which was awarded the College Theology Society's 2008 Book of the Year Award. She has been a spiritual director for over twenty years and is concerned with contemplation as a mystical political practice for personal and social transformation.Margaret Pfeil is Assistant Professor of Theology and a Fellow of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is a founding member and resident of St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker House in South Bend. She organized and served as facilitator for the conference on 'White Privilege: Implications for the Catholic University, the Church, and Theology' held at the University of Notre Dame in March 2006.