Exploring the basic conflict between the legal equality that black men possess as U.S. citizens and their social isolation stemming from white America's perceptions of them as culturally alien, the author sets out to provoke, stimulate, and change the negative images and stereotypes that indicate a fundamental defect in the mainframe of American culture. As the author states, the purpose of this book is not to defend the black male, but to deconstruct him and to libertate him from the negative images and stereotypes that have stultified his existence. Largely through the victories of the...
Exploring the basic conflict between the legal equality that black men possess as U.S. citizens and their social isolation stemming from white Amer...
In 21st-century, post-civil rights era America, "race" has become complex and intersectional. It is no longer simply a matter of color--black versus white--contends author D. Marvin Jones, but equally a matter of space or "geographies of fear," which he defines as spaces in which different groups are particularly vulnerable to stereotyping by law enforcement: blacks in the urban ghetto, Mexicans at the functional equivalent of the border, Arabs at the airport.
Dangerous Spaces: Beyond the Racial Profile demonstrates how society has constructed a set of threat...
In 21st-century, post-civil rights era America, "race" has become complex and intersectional. It is no longer simply a matter of color--black versu...
This powerful book on racism in the United States argues that a threatening narrative originating in slavery continues to link Black people to inferiority, dangerousness, and crime, causing them to be presumed guilty by society and U.S. legal systems. Why are Black people stopped, arrested, and shot by police at such a high rate?
This powerful book on racism in the United States argues that a threatening narrative originating in slavery continues to link Black people to inferio...
