Only For the Brave At Heart: Essays Rethinking Race, Crime, and Justice - 8011

Only when we transform our minds can we break the chains of our mental enslavement and find true liberation. Social commentators and scholars have presented numerous perspectives on racism and discrimination. But while many books lament the horrors associated with these concepts, few have provided a solution to the suffering experienced by so many. Only For the Brave at Heart: Essays Rethinking Race, Crime, and Justice attempts to create an intellectual movement that reimagines how we think about race and crime in the US. By taking a critical look at the writings of scholars and others in the fields of sociology, criminology, criminal justice, African American studies, philosophy, and law, as well as examining the literary imaginations of novelists and other social commentators, Professor Leon E. Pettiway presents a series of essays about racial justice that illuminates a path that liberates us from these sufferings. In doing so, he provides a unique perspective that reframes the social realities that have relied upon negativity and dysfunction as the essential explanatory frames used to understand human differences and failures. Buddhist thought, racism, and the Afrocentric perspective are essential elements of these essays. Through these lenses, Pettiway examines our thoughts concerning race, the causes of crime, and the administration of justice. As such, the Afrocentric worldview and Buddhist philosophy demonstrate how our current modes of thinking reinforce and perpetuate white supremacy, influence our scholarly endeavors, and frame our public policies and social agendas. In Only For the Brave at Heart: Essays Rethinking Race, Crime, and Justice, readers will: learn new ways of thinking that can liberate our world from injustice assess the ways we create the realities of race and crime in the US explore how love and compassion lead to meaningful actions that can reduce human suffering Pettiway has spent his career as an academic and Buddhist monk reflecting on and writing about the experiences of Africans in America. Only For the Brave at Heart attempts to create an intellectual movement that pushes against racism as a social construct and reimagines how we think about the perceived differences that fracture our society. In the end, Only For the Brave at Heart is a critique and commentary on social justice. This powerful collection of essays about racial justice and crime will prove to be one of the most important books about discrimination and racism in America today.
ASIN: B0CQ282XGZ
VSKU: BVV.B0CQ282XGZ.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Pettiway, Leon
Binding: Paperback