The Scandal of White Complicity in US Hyper-incarceration

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Table of Contents\nSeries Editor Preface; Mary Jo Iozzio\nForeword; Sister Helen Prejean\nIntroduction: The Invisibility of White Complicity in Hyper-incarceration; Laurie Cassidy and Alex Mikulich\nAcknowledgments

Part I: STRUCTURE\nChapter 1: Hyper-Incarceration of African Americans and Latinos in Historical Context; Alex Mikulich\nVital Prison Statistics\nThe Construction of Whiteness in U.S. Law\nThe Enduring \'Cultural Logic\' of Lynching and Three White Myths\nThe Emergence of the \'New Jim Crow\'\nThe Economic Perversity of \'Fortress America\'\nChapter 2: White Complicity in U.S. Hyper-incarceration; Alex Mikulich\nWhite Soul\nThe Pathology of White Segregation: An Enduring Marker of Race in America\nThe Historical Structuring of American Segregation\nWhite Habitus and the Four Walls of White Imprisonment\nConclusion

Part II: CULTURE\nChapter 3: The Myth of the Dangerous Black Man; Laurie Cassidy\nThe Picture in Our Heads\nSlavery and the Myth of the Dangerous Black Man\nWhite Christian Amnesia and Anamnesis\nChapter 4: Hip Hop and the Seditious Reinvention of the Dangerous Black Man; Laurie Cassidy\nThe Prophetic Voice of Hip Hop\nHip Hop and the Reinvention of Nat Turner\nConclusion

Part III: SPIRITUALITY\nChapter 5: A Spirituality of White Non-violent Resistance to the Reality of Hyper incarceration; Margaret Pfeil\nThe Beatitudes: A Framework for a Nonviolent Spirituality of White Resistance\nChapter 6: Contemplative Action: Toward Nonviolent White Resistance to Hyper-\nIncarceration; Margaret Pfeil\nMaking Whiteness Visible: Complicity\nAccountability and Awareness\nThe Circle Process: A Public Space of Accountability\nSystemic Change: Facing the Dark Night of Impasse\nConclusion

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