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The Resource Racial purity and dangerous bodies : moral pollution, black lives, and the struggle for justice, Rima Vesely-Flad

Racial purity and dangerous bodies : moral pollution, black lives, and the struggle for justice, Rima Vesely-Flad

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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
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xlv, 225 pages ):
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
Isbn
9781506420509
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Racial purity and dangerous bodies : moral pollution, black lives, and the struggle for justice
Title
Racial purity and dangerous bodies
Title remainder
moral pollution, black lives, and the struggle for justice
Statement of responsibility
Rima Vesely-Flad
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Subject
Language
eng
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
Cataloging source
YDX
Dewey number
364.256
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illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
HV6197.U6
LC item number
V47 2017
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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Racial purity and dangerous bodies : moral pollution, black lives, and the struggle for justice, Rima Vesely-Flad
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Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index
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rdacarrier
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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
Control code
ocn994987636
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xlv, 225 pages ):
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781506420509
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
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illustrations
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.b37106405
Specific material designation
remote
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  • (OCoLC)994987636
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