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Racial Purity and Dangerous Bodies: Moral Pollution, Black Lives, and the Struggle for Justice

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On the center of up to date struggles over aggressive policing practices is an assumed association in U.S. culture of blackness with criminality. Rima L. Vesely-Flad examines the religious and philosophical constructs of the black body in U.S. society, examining racialized ideas about purity and pollution as they have got developed historically and as they’re institutionalized lately in racially disproportionate policing and mass incarceration. These systems work, she argues, to assists in keeping threatening elements of society in a constant state of harassment and tension in order that they’re unable to pollute the morals of mainstream society. Policing establishes racialized boundaries between communities deemed “dangerous” and communities deemed “pure” and, along side prisons and reentry policies, sequesters and restrains the pollution of convicted “criminals,” thus perpetuating the image of the threatening black male criminal. Vesely-Flad shows how the anti-Stop and Frisk and the Black Lives Matter movements have confronted these systems by exposing unquestioned assumptions about blackness and criminality. They hold the prospective, she argues, to reverse the construal of “pollution” and invasion in The us’s urban cores if they extend their challenge to mass imprisonment and the barriers to reentry of convicted felons.

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