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- INTERSECTIONAL: This book addresses scholaractivists and academics who are addressing the intersection of theory and practice in theology, social ethics, and spirituality.
- PRACTICAL APPLICATION: A critical tool for antiracist training and organizing, and for many higher level undergraduate and graduate programs addressing white privilege, racism, incarceration, and U.S. contextual, liberation and mystical political theologies.
- CUTTINGEDGE: Expands and deepens collections in religious ethics, theology, moral theology, and spirituality in college and university libraries, seminaries, theological schools,
- DIVERSE AUDIENCE: Serves a diversity of scholars working in religious studies, theology, moral theology, social ethics, and the sociology of religion.
Part of the book series: Content and Context in Theological Ethics (CCTE)
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The Scandal of White Complicity and US Hyper-incarceration is a groundbreaking exploration of the moral role of white people in the disproportionate incarceration of African-Americans and Latinos in the United States.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: The Invisibility of White Complicity in Hyper-incarceration
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Back Matter
About the authors
Alex Mikulich is Research Fellow on Race and Poverty at the Jesuit Social Research Institute of Loyola University New Orleans, USA. He is co-editor and contributor to Interrupting White Privilege: Catholic Theologians Break the Silence, which was awarded the College Theology Society's 2008 Book of the Year Award. Alex serves the Pax Christi USA Anti-Racism Team, is a leader of Catholics Committed to Repeal of the Death Penalty in Louisiana, and is immersed in anti-racist research and advocacy in New Orleans and Mississippi.
Laurie Cassidy is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA. She is co-editor and contributor to Interrupting White Privilege: Catholic Theologians Break the Silence, which was awarded the College Theology Society's 2008 Book of the Year Award. She has been a spiritual director for over twenty years and is concerned with contemplation as a mystical political practice for personal and social transformation.
Margaret Pfeil is Assistant Professor of Theology and a Fellow of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is a founding member and resident of St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker House in South Bend. She organized and served as facilitator for the conference on 'White Privilege: Implications for the Catholic University, the Church, and Theology' held at the University of Notre Dame in March 2006.
Laurie Cassidy is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA. She is co-editor and contributor to Interrupting White Privilege: Catholic Theologians Break the Silence, which was awarded the College Theology Society's 2008 Book of the Year Award. She has been a spiritual director for over twenty years and is concerned with contemplation as a mystical political practice for personal and social transformation.
Margaret Pfeil is Assistant Professor of Theology and a Fellow of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is a founding member and resident of St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker House in South Bend. She organized and served as facilitator for the conference on 'White Privilege: Implications for the Catholic University, the Church, and Theology' held at the University of Notre Dame in March 2006.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Scandal of White Complicity in US Hyper-incarceration
Book Subtitle: A Nonviolent Spirituality of White Resistance
Authors: Alex Mikulich, Laurie Cassidy, Margaret Pfeil
Series Title: Content and Context in Theological Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137032447
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-00286-0Published: 30 January 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-43399-5Published: 30 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-03244-7Published: 05 February 2013
Series ISSN: 2945-7394
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7408
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 203
Topics: Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Crime and Society, Ethnicity Studies, Christian Theology, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law