Violence Against Black Bodies : An Intersectional Analysis of How Black Lives Continue to Matter

Violence Against Black Bodies argues that black deaths at the hands of police are just one form of violence that black and brown people face daily in the western world. Through the voices of scholars from different academic disciplines, this book gives readers an opportunity to put the cases together and see that violent deaths in police custody are just one tentacle of the racial order—a hierarchy which is designed to produce trauma and discrimination according to one's perceived race and ethnicity. Acknowledgments Introduction Sandra E. Weissinger, Dwayne A. Mack, and Elwood Watson PART I There is No Time for Despair: (Re) Working the Racial Order 1 The Fires of Racial Discontent are Burning! Intensely! Elwood Watson 2 Rage and Activism: The Promise of Black Lives Matter Deborah J. Cohan 3 Racialized Homophobic and Transphobic Violence Kathleen Fitzgerald PART II The Space of trauma: Violence to the Psyche, Body, and Home 4 When No Place is Safe: Violence Against Black Youth Sandra E. Weissinger and Venessa A. Brown 5 Death by Residential Segregation and the Post-Racial Myth Lori Latrice Martin, Kenneth Fasching-Varner, and Tifanie Pulley 6 Vigilant Vagrants: The Turbulent Tale of the Queer Black Man Maurice Davis PART III Media Fallacies: Stereotypes and Other Obliterations of Black Realities 7 The Revelatory Racial Politics of The Sopranos: Black and Brown Bodies and Storylines as Props and Backdrop in the Normalization of Whiteness Jessica Maucione 8 From Mammy to Black-ish: The Perceived Evolution of the Black American Typecast Kelle Neal 9 For the World to See: Bestiality Against Black Bodies and the Deleterious Effects of Predisposed Media Disclosure Cedric. D. Hackett 10 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 11 "The Multicultural Dilemma": Ignoring Racism in the Works of James Howard Kunstler Michael Potts 12 Callous Cruelty: The School-to-Prison Pipeline as Violence Against Black and Brown Bodies Elyshia Aseltine 13 Blood at the Root: The False Equivalency of External and Internal Violence Against Blacks in Obama’s America Kareem Muhammad 14 Trigger Happy Policing: Racialized Violence against Black Bodies in Academic Spaces Dwayne A. Mack and Felicia W. Mack Contributor Biographies Cover 1 Title 6 Copyright 7 Contents 8 Acknowledgments 11 Introduction 14 Part I There is No Time for Despair: (Re)Working the Racial Order 24 1 The Fires of Racial Discontent Are Still Burning! Intensely! 30 2 Rage and Activism: The Promise of Black Lives Matter 51 3 Understanding Racialized Homophobic and Transphobic Violence 66 Part II The Space of Trauma: Violence to the Psyche, Body, and Home 84 4 When No Place Is Safe: Violence Against Black Youth 88 5 Death by Residential Segregation and the Post-Racial Myth 103 6 Vigilant Vagrants: The Turbulent Tale of the Queer Black Man 121 Part III Media Fallacies: Stereotypes and Other Obliterations of Black Realities 136 7 The Revelatory Racial Politics of The Sopranos: Black and Brown Bodies and Storylines as Props and Backdrop in the Normalization of Whiteness 140 8 From Mammy to black-ish: The Perceived Evolution of the Black American Typecast 158 9 For the World to See: Bestiality Against Black Bodies and the Deleterious Effects of Predisposed Media Disclosure 172 10 It’s “Young Black Kids Doing It”: Biased Media Portrayals of the Deviant in Britain? 191 Part IV Stone Walls: The Invisible Hand of Institutional Racism 210 11 “The Multicultural Dilemma”: Ignoring Racism in the Works of James Howard Kunstler 214 12 The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Institutionalized Racial Violence 233 13 Blood at the Root: The False Equivalency of External and Internal Violence Against Blacks in Obama’s America 253 14 Trigger-Happy Policing: Racialized Violence Against Black Bodies in Academic Spaces 272 Contributor Biographies 289 Index 297 Violence Against Black Bodies argues that black deaths at the hands of police are just one form of violence that black and brown people face daily in the western world. Through the voices of scholars from different academic disciplines, the book gives readers an opportunity to put the cases together and see that violent deaths in police custody are just one tentacle of the racial order-a hierarchy which is designed to produce trauma and discrimination according to one's perceived race-ethnicity. Book jacket