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Reshaping beloved community : the experiences of Black male felons and their impact on Black radical traditions / Marlon A. Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Marlon A., 1972- author.
- Series:
- Africana experience and critical leadership studies.
- The Africana experience and critical leadership studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisons and race relations--United States.
- Prisons and race relations.
- African American men--Effect of imprisonment on.
- African American men.
- African American prisoners--Social conditions.
- African American prisoners.
- African American radicals.
- Imprisonment--Social aspects--United States.
- Imprisonment.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--Social aspects--United States.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--Social aspects.
- Imprisonment--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (200 pages)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2018.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]
- Summary:
- Reshaping Beloved Community examines the history of black male incarceration starting in the nineteenth century. This examination highlights how the label felon and the use of the prison was intentionally deployed to recast black men as dangerous and to justify the use of penal structures to systematically erase black radical projects.--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Slave and free : the mapping of race, religion, and punishment in the new world
- The construction of nineteenth-century Black prison radicals : an address to non-reflexive interpretations
- A challenge to Black heroic images : Huddie Ledbetter and the politics of a Black male felon
- Twentieth-century Black radical prison intellectuals : Malcolm X, George Jackson, and the expansion of nineteenth-century Black prison praxis
- Prison prophets : twenty-first century Black male felons on race, religion, and mass incarceration
- Expanding the beloved community : Black church, Black felons, and mass incarceration
- Conclusion: Where do we go from here : gender, education, and sexuality.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-9787-3065-9
- 1-4985-6934-X
- OCLC:
- 1048658639
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