Reimagining Black Art and Criminology : A New Criminological Imagination

Reimagining black art and criminology: A new Criminological Imagination explores issues of ‘the racialization of crime’ written from a standpoint of a black British (insider) criminologist who is also a poet, dramatist, and screenwriter. By presenting a criminological ‘counter narrative’ using the lens of ‘black art’ within the wider criminological imagination it is intended to move beyond the discipline’s limited racialized boundaries. Russell (2002) previously called for the development of a black criminology, whilst Phillips and Bowling (2003) strenuously called for minority perspectives in criminology, alongside Cuneen and Tauri (2016) who similarly express the need for a move towards a more critical indigenous criminology. This book will be an important addition to the study of crime, with a unique twist on themes usually explored in a ‘traditional way’ using black art as the prism from which to explore notions of race and the racialization of crime. Front Cover Reimagining Black Art and Criminology Copyright information Table of contents Note on Terminology About the Author Acknowledgements Preface Beyond the Wall 1 Reimagining a Black Art Infused Criminology Systemic change Imaginations The black criminological imagination Black epistemological space Black criminology arrives What no theories? Reflection 2 The People Speak The need for a black aesthetic Ongoing struggle Milestone Arising conflict Awakening Winston Churchill Fellowship The roll call Harlem Renaissance The Niagara Movement Négritude Black Arts Movement (US) Black Arts Movement (United Kingdom) Combahee River Collective National Black Arts Alliance Apples and Snakes New Beacon Books Walter Rodney Bookshop Race Today Collective Reflection 3 Shadow People Troubling thoughts Black crime fiction Redressing the balance Expansion Insider–outsider Access The code Blackness and the criminologist Extract from Pause for a Minute: Reflections on the 2011 English Riots Transcending boundaries Black crime fiction as speculative fiction about crime Reflection 4 Staging the Truth Where are we now? Who engages who? Culturally sensitive research methods Theatre as praxis Dramatizing research Silences Transformation Applied theatre and me Ethnodrama and me Reflection 5 Beyond The Wire Whose cinematic representation is it? Mediatized worlds, race, and crime Contrast Malevolence The question Fact or fiction? Postscript from a frustrated black writer Show, don’t tell The prefix syndrome Reflection 6 Strange Fruit Black music and me Black arts movements and music Survival Identity stripping Black music and criminology The past speaks Colours Case Example: David Reflection 7 Of Mules and Men Black stories matter Aesop’s Fables Trickster stories Uncle ‘P’ and Marcus stories Issue-based storytelling: the consequences of knife crime Letter writing as stories Reflection 8 Seeing the Story The need to reframe who we are Koestler Arts Dismay The Black Art Group Roll call Visual art and desistance Towards black visual arts as cultural therapy Reflection: towards a model of visual arts as cultural therapy 9 Speaking Data and Telling Stories Context Moving beyond boundaries Praxis Augusto Boal Data verbalization is the way to go The inventory Stage 1 – Finding a premise Stage 2 – Highlighting Stage 3 – Rhymes Stage 4 – Studio recording Example: code switching Reflection 10 Locating the Researcher Presentation of self Reflexivity Masking Breaking the fourth wall Incorporation Auto-ethnography Passages Presenting your auto-ethnography Reflection 11 Towards a Black Arts Infused Criminology Racialized perceptions Towards a black arts infused criminological imagination Transcending bias Don’t hide history Metaphors Case example: JB’s journey The interview New identity A black arts infused criminological imagination manifesto Epilogue Provocation responses Bibliography Index Back Cover It is time to disrupt current criminological discourses which still exclude the perspectives of black scholars. Through the lens of black art, Martin Glynn explores the relevance black artistic contributions have for understanding crime and justice. Through art forms including black crime fiction, black theatre and black music, this book brings much needed attention to marginalized perspectives within mainstream criminology. Refining academic and professional understandings of race, racialization and intersectional aspects of crime, this text provides a platform for the contributions to criminology which are currently rendered invisible.|It is time to disrupt current criminological discourses which still exclude the perspectives of black scholars. Through the lens of black art, Martin Glynn explores the relevance black artistic contributions have for understanding crime and justice. Through art forms including black crime fiction, black theatre and black music, this book brings much needed attention to marginalized perspectives within mainstream criminology. Refining academic and professional understandings of race, racialization and intersectional aspects of crime, this text provides a platform for the contributions to criminology which are currently rendered invisible. "It is time to disrupt current criminological discourses which still exclude the perspectives of black scholars. Through the lens of black art, Martin Glynn explores the relevance black artistic contributions have for understanding crime and justice. Through art forms including black crime fiction, black theatre and black music, this book brings much needed attention to marginalized perspectives within mainstream criminology. Refining academic and professional understandings of race, racialization and intersectional aspects of crime, this text provides a platform for the contributions to criminology which are currently rendered invisible."--Page 4 de la couverture "It is time to disrupt current criminological discourses which still exclude the perspectives of black scholars. Through the lens of black art, Martin Glynn explores the relevance black artistic contributions have for understanding crime and justice. Through art forms including black crime fiction, black theatre and black music, this book brings much needed attention to marginalized perspectives within mainstream criminology. Refining academic and professional understandings of race, racialization and intersectional aspects of crime, this text provides a platform for the contributions to criminology which are currently rendered invisible."-- page 4 of cover