The Scandal of White Complicity in US Hyper-Incarceration: A Nonviolent Spirituality of White Resistance (Content and Context in Theological Ethics) (Hardcover)

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The Scandal of White Complicity in US Hyper-Incarceration: A Nonviolent Spirituality of White Resistance (Content and Context in Theological Ethics) By A. Mikulich, Helen Prejean (Foreword by), L. Cassidy Cover Image
By A. Mikulich, Helen Prejean (Foreword by), L. Cassidy
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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.

About the Author


Alex Mikulich is Research Fellow on Race and Poverty at the Jesuit Social Research Institute of Loyola University New Orleans, USA. He is co-editor and contributor to Interrupting White Privilege: Catholic Theologians Break the Silence, which was awarded the College Theology Society's 2008 Book of the Year Award. Alex serves the Pax Christi USA Anti-Racism Team, is a leader of Catholics Committed to Repeal of the Death Penalty in Louisiana, and is immersed in anti-racist research and advocacy in New Orleans and Mississippi. Laurie Cassidy is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA. She is co-editor and contributor to Interrupting White Privilege: Catholic Theologians Break the Silence, which was awarded the College Theology Society's 2008 Book of the Year Award. She has been a spiritual director for over twenty years and is concerned with contemplation as a mystical political practice for personal and social transformation. Margaret Pfeil is Assistant Professor of Theology and a Fellow of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is a founding member and resident of St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker House in South Bend. She organized and served as facilitator for the conference on 'White Privilege: Implications for the Catholic University, the Church, and Theology' held at the University of Notre Dame in March 2006.
Product Details
ISBN: 9781137002860
ISBN-10: 1137002867
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Publication Date: January 30th, 2013
Pages: 203
Language: English
Series: Content and Context in Theological Ethics