Race, Africana Communication, and Criminal Justice Reform

A Reflexive and Intersectional Analysis of Adaptive Vitality

Detra D. Johnson, Marilyn D. Lovett, Jeremy Harris Lipschultz

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2024
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781666938555
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Communication Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Race, Africana Communication, and Criminal Justice Reform: A Reflexive and Intersectional Analysis of Adaptive Vitality discusses issues and themes surrounding communication, social media, online protests, policing, criminal justice reform, and freedom of speech. Honoring the legacy of Dr. James Conyers, this volume offers analyses grounded in Africana praxis and communication principles that embrace social justice and challenge systems based on race, arguing for the importance of establishing networks of communication that benefit all people. Collectively, these interdisciplinary chapters extend the research on race at the intersections of social media and social justice. Scholars of Africana studies, communication, criminal justice, education, and sociology will find this work particularly useful.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Potholes in My Lawn: Rooting out Racism in the Criminal Justice System
• Chapter 3: Educational and Criminal Justice Reform: Transformative Justice Reform by Disrupting, Dismantling, and Reversing the Disproportionate Channels of People of Color into the School-to-Prison Pipeline
• Chapter 4: Social Media Communication and Networks: The Ongoing #BlackLivesMatter Struggle
• Chapter 5: Black Movement in White Spaces: How Youth Online Protests Challenge “No-Excuses” Charter Practices
• Chapter 6: Today’s U.S. Supreme Court and the Future of the First Amendment: Donald J. Trump, U.S. Freedom of Expression, and Possible Nullification of New York Times v. Sullivan
• Chapter 7: Speak It Into Existence: An Afrocentric Examination of the Spoken Word as Energetic Human Potential and Social Justice
• Chapter 8: Pronouncing Sentences: Producing Narratives of Incarceration and Black Men
• Chapter 9: Intergroup Dialogue at the Intersection of Difference: Social Interactions as a Model for Intergroup Understanding, Relationships, and Action
• Chapter 10: Conclusion: The Conyers Scholarly Legacy
• About the Editors and Contributors