Ronald B. Neal

Beyond Death and Jail

Anti-Blackness, Black Masculinity, and the Demonic Imagination

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Beyond Death and Jail explores death and the institutional machinery of policing, surveillance, and containment which breeds it. It seeks to explain why homicide, accompanied by an apparatus of jails, detention centers, prisons, and criminal courts haunts segments of Americaâ s Black population, Black boys, Black male youth, and Black men.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9781498572729
• ISBN-10: 1498572723
• Artikelnr.: 69922593

Autorenporträt

Ronald B. Neal is associate professor of religion in the Department for the Study of Religions at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One: The Death of a Nation: Black Masculinity and the Failures of
Black Leadership
Chapter Two: We Don't Need Another Savior: Intellectuals, Activists, and
the Myth of the Black Messiah
Chapter Three: The Thrill Is Gone: The Obama Era and the Obsolescence of
Black American Orthodoxy
Chapter Four: The Demonic Imagination: Black Masculinity and the
Abominations of Religion and Theology in the United States
Chapter Five: Who's Afraid of Black Men?: Black Women and White Saviors
Chapter Six: Legal Misandry: The Prosecutor Who Is Afraid of Black Men
Chapter Seven: Detox: Purging the Demonic
Chapter Eight: The Saga Continues: Cruel and Unusual Punishment, State
Based Fatherhood, and the Rage for Order in the United States
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author