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Policing the black man : arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment
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ISBN: 9780525436614 9781101871270 0525436618 1101871288 110187127X Year: 2018 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Penguin Random House

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A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation’s most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars.“Somewhere among the anger, mourning and malice that Policing the Black Man documents lies the pursuit of justice. This powerful book demands our fierce attention.” —Toni MorrisonPolicing the Black Man explores and critiques the many ways the criminal justice system impacts the lives of African American boys and men at every stage of the criminal process, from arrest through sentencing. Essays range from an explication of the historical roots of racism in the criminal justice system to an examination of modern-day police killings of unarmed black men. The contributors discuss and explain racial profiling, the power and discretion of police and prosecutors, the role of implicit bias, the racial impact of police and prosecutorial decisions, the disproportionate imprisonment of black men, the collateral consequences of mass incarceration, and the Supreme Court’s failure to provide meaningful remedies for the injustices in the criminal justice system. Policing the Black Man is an enlightening must-read for anyone interested in the critical issues of race and justice in America.


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Let Us Make Men : The Twentieth-Century Black Press and a Manly Vision for Racial Advancement
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ISBN: 1469643405 1469643413 9781469643403 9781469643410 9781469643380 1469643383 9781469643397 1469643391 9798890848758 9798890848741 Year: 2018 Publisher: Chapel Hill : Baltimore, Md. : University of North Carolina Press, Project MUSE,

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During its golden years, the 20th-century black press was a tool of black men's leadership, public voice, and gender and identity formation. Those at the helm of black newspapers used their platforms to wage a fight for racial justice and black manhood. In a story that stretches from the turn of the 20th century to the rise of the Black Power Movement, D'Weston Haywood argues that black people's ideas, rhetoric, and protest strategies for racial advancement grew out of the quest for manhood led by black newspapers. This history departs from standard narratives of black protest, black men, and the black press by positioning newspapers at the intersections of gender, ideology, race, class, identity, urbanization, the public sphere, and black institutional life.


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Intersectionality : origins, contestations, horizons
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ISBN: 9780803285552 9780803296626 9780803296633 9780803296640 0803296622 0803296630 0803296649 0803285558 1496212487 Year: 2016 Publisher: Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press,

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Intersectionality intervenes in the field of intersectionality studies: the integrative examination of the effects of racial, gendered, and class power on people's lives. While "intersectionality" circulates as a buzzword, Anna Carastathis joins other critical voices to urge a more careful reading. Challenging the narratives of arrival that surround it, Carastathis argues that intersectionality is a horizon, illuminating ways of thinking that have yet to be realized; consequently, calls to "go beyond" intersectionality are premature. A provisional interpretation of intersectionality can disorient habits of essentialism, categorial purity, and prototypicality and overcome dynamics of segregation and subordination in political movements. Through a close reading of critical race theorist Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw's germinal texts, published more than twenty-five years ago, Carastathis urges analytic clarity, contextual rigor, and a politicized, historicized understanding of this widely traveling concept. Intersectionality's roots in social justice movements and critical intellectual projects-specifically Black feminism-must be retraced and synthesized with a decolonial analysis so its radical potential to actualize coalitions can be enacted.


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Fearing the black body : the racial origins of fat phobia
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ISBN: 9781479886753 1479886750 9781479819805 1479819808 9781479831098 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as “diseased” and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two hundred years ago.Strings weaves together an eye-opening historical narrative ranging from the Renaissance to the current moment, analyzing important works of art, newspaper and magazine articles, and scientific literature and medical journals—where fat bodies were once praised—showing that fat phobia, as it relates to black women, did not originate with medical findings, but with the Enlightenment era belief that fatness was evidence of “savagery” and racial inferiority.


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Aphro-ism : essays on pop culture, feminism, and black veganism from two sisters
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ISBN: 9781590565551 9781590565568 1590565568 159056555X Year: 2017 Publisher: Lantern Books


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When We Imagine Grace : Black Men and Subject Making
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ISBN: 9780226363974 9780226364025 9780226363837 022636402X 022636383X 022636397X Year: 2016 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Simone C. Drake spent the first several decades of her life learning how to love and protect herself, a black woman, from the systems designed to facilitate her harm and marginalization. But when she gave birth to the first of her three sons, she quickly learned that black boys would need protection from these very same systems-systems dead set on the static, homogenous representations of black masculinity perpetuated in the media and our cultural discourse. In When We Imagine Grace, Drake borrows from Toni Morrison's Beloved to bring imagination to the center of black masculinity studies-allowing individual black men to exempt themselves and their fates from a hateful, ignorant society and open themselves up as active agents at the center of their own stories. Against a backdrop of crisis, Drake brings forth the narratives of black men who have imagined grace for themselves. We meet African American cowboy, Nat Love, and Drake's own grandfather, who served in the first black military unit to fight in World War II. Synthesizing black feminist and black masculinity studies, Drake analyzes black fathers and daughters, the valorization of black criminals, the black entrepreneurial pursuits of Marcus Garvey, Berry Gordy, and Jay-Z, and the denigration and celebration of gay black men: Cornelius Eady, Antoine Dodson, and Kehinde Wiley. With a powerful command of its subjects and a passionate dedication to hope, When We Imagine Grace gives us a new way of seeing and knowing black masculinity-sophisticated in concept and bracingly vivid in telling.


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Identity before identity politics
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ISBN: 9780521862134 9780521680486 9780511551956 9780511508158 0511508158 0521680484 0521862132 9780511504266 0511504268 9780511506406 0511506406 0511551959 1107196663 9786612058288 1282058282 0511507496 0511508816 9781107196667 6612058285 9781282058286 9780511507496 9780511508813 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In the late 1960s identity politics emerged on the political landscape and challenged prevailing ideas about social justice. These politics brought forth a new attention to social identity, an attention that continues to divide people today. While previous studies have focused on the political movements of this period, they have neglected the conceptual prehistory of this political turn. Linda Nicholson's engaging book situates this critical moment in its historical framework, analyzing the concepts and traditions of racial and gender identity that can be traced back to late eighteenth-century Europe and America. She examines how changing ideas about social identity over the last several centuries both helped and hindered successive social movements, and explores the consequences of this historical legacy for the women's and black movements of the 1960s. This insightful study will be of particular interest to students and scholars of political history, identity politics and US history.


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The Angela Y. Davis reader
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ISBN: 0631203613 9780631203612 9780631203605 Year: 2008 Publisher: Malden, Massachusetts Blackwell Publishers

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Joy James, "the editor teaches political theory in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she is also Director of the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America (CSERA)"--Cover. "For three decades, Angela Y. Davis has written on feminism, anti-racism, political philosophy, and liberation theory. Her analyses of culture, gender, capital and race have profoundly influenced political and social thought, and contemporary struggles. This volume presents interviews, essays, and excerpts from Davis's most important works including her memoir. In four parts -- Prisons, repression, and resistance; Marxism, anti-racism, and feminism; aesthetics and culture; and interviews -- Davis examines progressive politics and intellectualism The extensive introduction by Joy James both provides biographical background and contextualizes the intellectual development of Davis as one of the leading thinkers of our time. The Angela Y. Davis Reader is essential reading for anyone concerned about social justice, Marxism, and critical race and feminist theory."--Provided by publisher.

Quiet as it's kept : shame, trauma, and race in the novels of Toni Morrison.
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ISBN: 0791444236 0791444244 0585301921 9780585301921 9780791444238 9780791444245 0791497259 9780791497258 Year: 2000 Publisher: Albany State university of New York press

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Focuses on the role of shame and trauma as it looks at issues of race, class, color, and caste in the novels of Toni Morrison.Quiet As It's Kept draws on and extends recent psychoanalytic and psychiatric work of shame and trauma theorists to offer an in-depth analysis of Toni Morrison's representation of painful and shameful race matters in her fiction. Providing a frank and sustained look at the troubling, if not distressing, aspects of Morrison's fiction that other critics have studiously avoided or minimized in their commentaries, this book challenges established views of Morrison, showing her to be an author who forces readers into uncomfortable confrontations with matters of race. In Quiet As It's Kept, J. Brooks Bouson explores these issues in Morrison's works The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise.Morrison, Nobel prize-winning author, has viewed part of her cultural and literary task as a writer to bear witness to the plight of black Americans. "Quiet as it's kept, much of our business, our existence here, has been grotesque. It really has," she has commented. As she exposes to public view sensitive race matters in her fiction, Morrison presents jarring depictions of the trauma of slavery and the horrors of racist oppression and black-on-black violence.


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Black women's health : paths to wellness for mothers and daughters
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ISBN: 1479845426 9781479845422 9781479828524 9781479892952 9781479876587 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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From heart disease and diabetes to HIV and obesity, Black women and girls face serious health risks, lagging behind their white counterparts by every measure of health, well-being, and fitness. Michele Tracy Berger shows us why this is the case, exploring how the health needs of Black women and girls are uniquely rooted in their experiences with racism, sexism, and class discrimination. Drawing on interviews with mothers and their daughters, as well as compelling medical data, Berger provides insight into the larger patterns that place Black women at such high risk on a national level. She shows how Black mothers communicate with their daughters about health, sexuality, and intimacy, including how they attempt to promote healthy living standards even as they navigate widespread, systemic challenges.

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African American women --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. --- Health and hygiene. --- . --- African American daughters. --- African American mothers. --- African-American women. --- Black feminism. --- Black girls. --- Communication. --- Daughters. --- Diet. --- Focus groups. --- Gatekeepers. --- Gender and media. --- Gendered peer pressure. --- Gendered scripts. --- Good girl and bad girl culture. --- HIV/AIDS. --- Health providers. --- Health. --- Inheritances. --- Intersectionality. --- Intimacy. --- Mixed messages. --- Narratives. --- North Carolina. --- Pleasure. --- Pregnancy. --- Public policy. --- Racial and gender health disparities. --- Responsibility. --- STDS. --- Sexual education. --- Sexual health. --- The South. --- Trust. --- Typology. --- Well-being. --- barriers. --- cleanliness. --- diet. --- exercise. --- grandmothers. --- health care access. --- health disparities. --- health. --- mothers. --- pressure. --- respect. --- sexuality. --- trust. --- virginity. --- worldviews. --- young women. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sociology of health --- United States --- African Americans. --- Women --- Health of women --- Health education of women --- African Americans --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Black people --- Hygiene --- Diseases --- United States of America --- Interviews --- Classism --- Physical health --- Motherhood --- Racism --- Sexism --- Sexuality --- Blackness --- Book --- Chiffres --- Communication --- Daughters

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