The Presumption

Zusatztext Presumptions of guilt, dangerousness, and menace have haunted the black community since America was founded. These inhumane assumptions continue to infect every aspect of American justice, causing untold suffering, marginalization, and death. No one understands this toxicity better than Professor Donald M. Jones. In a work like no other, Professor Jones dives deeply into the psychological, historical, and legal elements of these deadly presumptions. The analysis is brilliant, original, sober, and clear. Lawyers, law students, academics, journalists, activists, college students, and anyone concerned about injustice will benefit from the work of the preeminent expert on this subject, Professor Donald M. Jones. Informationen zum Autor D. Marvin Jones is professor of law at the University of Miami, USA. Klappentext This powerful book on racism in the United States argues that a threatening narrative originating in slavery continues to link Black people to inferiority, dangerousness, and crime, causing them to be presumed guilty by society and U.S. legal systems. Why are Black people stopped, arrested, and shot by police at such a high rate? Why are they portrayed in the media as gangbangers and urban thugs? D. Marvin Jones writes that the problem of race lies in the way Blackness has been inextricably knotted together in our culture with presumptions. In the era of segregation this was a presumption of inferiority, but in our era, it is primarily a presumption of dangerousness or criminality.In chapters on slavery, urban spaces, the drug war, media portrayals, and white spaces, he shows how the presumption of guilt continues to shape the treatment of Black people in the United States. Arguing that this presumption is not simply a matter of hate on the part of individuals, but instead a social process linked to a widely shared racial ideology, The Presumption points out the continuation of racial caste in the United States as a crisis for democracy and provides a blueprint for a kind of second Reconstruction. Vorwort This powerful book on racism in the United States argues that a threatening narrative originating in slavery continues to link Black people to inferiority, dangerousness, and crime, causing them to be presumed guilty by society and U.S. legal systems. Zusammenfassung This powerful book on racism in the United States argues that a threatening narrative originating in slavery continues to link Black people to inferiority, dangerousness, and crime, causing them to be presumed guilty by society and U.S. legal systems. Why are Black people stopped, arrested, and shot by police at such a high rate? Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1: Crimes of Identity: The Slaveship, the Plantation, and the Presumption2: This Is a White Man's Country!: The Eviction of Ossian Sweet3: Makes Me Wanna Holler: The Making of the Second Ghetto4: The New Black Codes: The Presumption and the Drug War5: Strangers Paradise: The Presumption White Spaces6: From Blackface to Sidney Poitier: The Presumption on Our Screens (Part I)7: From Blaxploitation to Hood Films: The Presumption on Our Screens (Part II)8: ConclusionAfterwordIndex...

Préface
This powerful book on racism in the United States argues that a threatening narrative originating in slavery continues to link Black people to inferiority, dangerousness, and crime, causing them to be presumed guilty by society and U.S. legal systems.

Auteur
D. Marvin Jones is professor of law at the University of Miami, where he has taught constitutional law and criminal procedure for more than 20 years. He has published numerous articles in leading law journals, including those of Georgetown, the University of Michigan, and Vanderbilt University. His published work includes Praeger's Dangerous Spaces: Beyond the Racial Profile; Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet: America's New Dilemma; and Race, Sex, and Suspicion: The Myth of the Black Male. He received the James Thomas prize from Yale University, recognizing him as one the nation's foremost scholars on civil rights issues.

D. Marvin Jones is professor of law at the University of Miami, where he has taught constitutional law and criminal procedure for more than 20 years.

Contenu

Introduction 1: Crimes of Identity: The Slaveship, the Plantation, and the Presumption 2: "This Is a White Man's Country!": The Eviction of Ossian Sweet 3: Makes Me Wanna Holler: The Making of the Second Ghetto 4: The New Black Codes: The Presumption and the Drug War 5: Strangers Paradise: The Presumption White Spaces 6: From Blackface to Sidney Poitier: The Presumption on Our Screens (Part I) 7: From Blaxploitation to Hood Films: The Presumption on Our Screens (Part II) 8: Conclusion Afterword Index