Beyond Death and Jail - Anti-Blackness, Black Masculinity, and the Demonic Imagination

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 America’s Black population, Black boys, Black male youth, and Black men.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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 America’s Black population, Black boys, Black male youth, and Black men.

Product details

• Authors: Ronald B Neal, Ronald B. Neal
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2024
• EAN: 9781498572729
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-7272-9
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Christian life and practice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, RELIGION / Christian Living / Social Issues, Relating to Christian people and groups, Religious social and pastoral thought and activity, Christian social thought & activity