Reshaping the beloved community : the experiences of Black male felons and their impact on Black radical traditions /

Reshaping Beloved Community: The Experiences of Black Male Felons and Their Impact on Black Radical Traditions offers a reflexive interrogation on the history of black male incarceration in the United States starting in the nineteenth century to both illustrate the complex ways black male felons hav...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Marlon A., 1972- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2018.
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Table of 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.