The Scandal of White Complicity and U.S. 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. Alex Mikulich, Laurie Cassidy, and Margaret Pfeil are white Catholic theologians developing understanding of how whiteness operates in the U.S. system of incarceration and witnessing to a Christian nonviolent way for whites to subvert our oppression of brothers and sisters of color.
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.
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.
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