ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|60 pages
There is No Time for Despair
part II|52 pages
The Space of Trauma
part III|74 pages
Media Fallacies
chapter 7|18 pages
The Revelatory Racial Politics of the Sopranos
Black and Brown Bodies and Storylines as Props and Backdrop in the Normalization of Whiteness
chapter 9|19 pages
For the World to See
Bestiality Against Black Bodies and the Deleterious Effects of Predisposed Media Disclosure
chapter 10|19 pages
It’s “Young Black Kids Doing It”
Biased Media Portrayals of the Deviant in Britain?
part IV|79 pages
Stone Walls
chapter 11|19 pages
“The Multicultural Dilemma”
Ignoring Racism in the Works of James Howard Kunstler
chapter 13|19 pages
Blood at the Root
The False Equivalency of External and Internal Violence Against Blacks in Obama’s America
chapter 14|17 pages
Trigger-Happy Policing
Racialized Violence Against Black Bodies in Academic Spaces
