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Violence against black bodies : an intersectional analysis of how black lives continue to matter / edited by Sandra E. Weissinger, Dwayne A. Mack, and Elwood Watson.

Contributor(s): Weissinger, Sandra Ellen [editor.] | Mack, Dwayne, 1968- [editor.] | Watson, Elwood [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: New critical viewpoints on society series: Publisher: New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017Description: xi, 293 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138222090 (hardcover : alk. paper); 1138222097 (hardcover : alk. paper)Other title: Intersectional analysis of how black lives continue to matterSubject(s): African Americans -- Violence against | Racism -- United States | African Americans in popular culture | African Americans -- Social conditions | Civil rights movements -- United States | United States -- Race relations | RacismDDC classification: 305.896/073 LOC classification: E185.615 | .V56 2017Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
There is no time for despair: (re) working the racial order -- The fires of racial discontent are burning! Intensely! / Elwood Watson -- Rage and activism: the promise of Black Lives Matter / Deborah J. Cohan -- Understanding racialized homophobic and transphobic violence / Kathleen Fitzgerald -- The space of trauma : violence to the psyche, body, and homes -- When no place is safe: violence against black youth / Sandra E. Weissinger and Venessa A. Brown -- Death by residential segregation and the post-racial myth / Lori Latrice Martin, Kenneth Fasching-Varner, and Tifanie Pulley -- Vigilant vagrants : the turbulent tale of the queer black man / Maurice Davis -- Media fallacies : stereotypes and other obliterations of black realities -- The revelatory racial politics of the Sopranos: black and brown bodies and storylines as props and backdrop in the normalization of whiteness / Jessica Maucione -- From mammy to black-ish: the perceived evolution of the black American typecast / Kelle Neal -- For the world to see : bestiality against black bodies and the deleterious effects of predisposed media disclosure / Cedric. D. Hacketts -- It's "young black kids doing it" : biased media portrayals of the deviant in Britain / Monia O'Brien Castro -- Stone walls: the invisible hand of institutional racism -- "The multicultural dilemma" : ignoring racism in the works of James Howard Kunstler / Michael Potts -- Callous cruelty : the school-to-prison pipeline as violence against black and brown bodies / Elyshia Aseltine -- Blood at the root : the false equivalency of external and internal violence against blacks in Obama's America / Kareem Muhammad -- Trigger happy policing : racialized violence against black bodies in academic spaces / Dwayne A. Mack and Felicia W. Mack.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: There is no time for despair: (re) working the racial order -- The fires of racial discontent are burning! Intensely! / Elwood Watson -- Rage and activism: the promise of Black Lives Matter / Deborah J. Cohan -- Understanding racialized homophobic and transphobic violence / Kathleen Fitzgerald -- Part II: The space of trauma : violence to the psyche, body, and homes -- When no place is safe: violence against black youth / Sandra E. Weissinger and Venessa A. Brown -- Death by residential segregation and the post-racial myth / Lori Latrice Martin, Kenneth Fasching-Varner, and Tifanie Pulley -- Vigilant vagrants : the turbulent tale of the queer black man / Maurice Davis -- Part III: Media fallacies : stereotypes and other obliterations of black realities -- The revelatory racial politics of the Sopranos: black and brown bodies and storylines as props and backdrop in the normalization of whiteness / Jessica Maucione -- From mammy to black-ish: the perceived evolution of the black American typecast / Kelle Neal -- For the world to see : bestiality against black bodies and the deleterious effects of predisposed media disclosure / Cedric. D. Hacketts -- It's "young black kids doing it" : biased media portrayals of the deviant in Britain / Monia O'Brien Castro -- Part IV: Stone walls: the invisible hand of institutional racism -- "The multicultural dilemma" : ignoring racism in the works of James Howard Kunstler / Michael Potts -- Callous cruelty : the school-to-prison pipeline as violence against black and brown bodies / Elyshia Aseltine -- Blood at the root : the false equivalency of external and internal violence against blacks in Obama's America / Kareem Muhammad -- Trigger happy policing : racialized violence against black bodies in academic spaces / Dwayne A. Mack and Felicia W. Mack.

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