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.

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