Beyond Death and Jail explores death and the institutional machinery of policing, surveillance, and containment which breeds it. It seeks to explain why homicide, accompanied by an apparatus of jails, detention centers, prisons, and criminal courts haunts segments of America's Black population, Black boys, Black male youth, and Black men.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter One: The Death of a Nation: Black Masculinity and the Failures of Black Leadership
Chapter Two: We Don't Need Another Savior: Intellectuals, Activists, and the Myth of the Black Messiah
Chapter Three: The Thrill Is Gone: The Obama Era and the Obsolescence of Black American Orthodoxy
Chapter Four: The Demonic Imagination: Black Masculinity and the Abominations of Religion and Theology in the United States
Chapter Five: Who's Afraid of Black Men?: Black Women and White Saviors
Chapter Six: Legal Misandry: The Prosecutor Who Is Afraid of Black Men
Chapter Seven: Detox: Purging the Demonic
Chapter Eight: The Saga Continues: Cruel and Unusual Punishment, State Based Fatherhood, and the Rage for Order in the United States
Conclusion
