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Dark Ghettos

Injustice, Dissent, and Reform

By: Tommie Shelby

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Dark Ghettos

Injustice, Dissent, and Reform

By: Tommie Shelby

Winner of the Spitz Prize, Conference for the Study of Political Thought Winner of the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award Why do American ghettos persist? Scholars and commentators often identify some factor—such as single motherhood, joblessness, or violent street crime—as the key to solving the problem and recommend policies accordingly. But, Tommie Shelby argues, these attempts to “fix” ghettos or “help” their poor inhabitants ignore fundamental questions of justice and fail to see the urban poor as moral agents responding to injustice. “Provocative...[Shelby] doesn’t lay out a jobs program or a housing initiative. Indeed, as he freely admits, he offers ‘no new political strategies or policy proposals.’ What he aims to do instead is both more abstract and more radical: to challenge the assumption, common to liberals and conservatives alike, that ghettos are ‘problems’ best addressed with narrowly targeted government programs or civic interventions. For Shelby, ghettos are something more troubling and less tractable: symptoms of the ‘systemic injustice’ of the United States. They represent not aberrant dysfunction but the natural workings of a deeply unfair scheme. The only real solution, in this way of thinking, is the ‘fundamental reform of the basic structure of our society.’” —James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review

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Harvard University Press

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0674970500

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9780674970502

The Idea of Prison Abolition

By: Tommie Shelby

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The Idea of Prison Abolition

By: Tommie Shelby

An incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonment Despite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice. In the United States and elsewhere, prison conditions are inhumane, prisoners are treated without dignity, and sentences are extremely harsh. Mass incarceration and its devastating impact on black communities have been widely condemned as neoslavery or “the new Jim Crow.” Can the practice of imprisonment be reformed, or does justice require it to be ended altogether? In The Idea of Prison Abolition, Tommie Shelby examines the abolitionist case against prisons and its formidable challenge to would-be prison reformers. Philosophers have long theorized punishment and its justifications, but they haven’t paid enough attention to incarceration or its related problems in societies structured by racial and economic injustice. Taking up this urgent topic, Shelby argues that prisons, once reformed and under the right circumstances, can be legitimate and effective tools of crime control. Yet he draws on insights from black radicals and leading prison abolitionists, especially Angela Davis, to argue that we should dramatically decrease imprisonment and think beyond bars when responding to the problem of crime. While a world without prisons might be utopian, The Idea of Prison Abolition makes the case that we can make meaningful progress toward this ideal by abolishing the structural injustices that too often lead to crime and its harmful consequences.

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Princeton University Press

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0691229767

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9780691229768

We Who Are Dark

The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity

By: Tommie Shelby

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We Who Are Dark

The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity

By: Tommie Shelby

We Who Are Dark provides the first extended philosophical defense of black political solidarity. Tommie Shelby argues that we can reject a biological idea of race and agree with many criticisms of identity politics yet still view black political solidarity as a needed emancipatory tool. In developing his defense of black solidarity, he draws on the history of black political thought, focusing on the canonical figures of Martin R. Delany and W. E. B. Du Bois.

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Harvard University Press

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0674043529

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9780674043527

Work Inequality Basic Income

By: Brishen Rogers,Philippe Van Parjis,Dorian Warren,Tommie Shelby,Diane Coyle

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Work Inequality Basic Income

By: Brishen Rogers,Philippe Van Parjis,Dorian Warren,Tommie Shelby,Diane Coyle

Technology and the loss of manufacturing jobs have many worried about future mass unemployment. It is in this context that basic income, a government cash grant given unconditionally to all, has gained support from a surprising range of advocates, from Silicon Valley to labor. Our contributors explore basic income's merits, not only as a salve for financial precarity, but as a path toward racial justice and equality. Others, more skeptical, see danger in a basic income designed without attention to workers' power and the quality of work. Together they offer a nuanced debate about what it will take to tackle inequality and what kind of future we should aim to create.

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MIT Press

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1946511358

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9781946511355

The Idea of Prison Abolition

By: Tommie Shelby

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Hip-Hop and Philosophy

Rhyme 2 Reason

By: Derrick Darby,Tommie Shelby

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Hip-Hop and Philosophy

Rhyme 2 Reason

By: Derrick Darby,Tommie Shelby

Is there too much violence in hip-hop music? What’s the difference between Kimberly Jones and the artist Lil' Kim? Is hip-hop culture a "black" thing? Is it okay for N.W.A. to call themselves niggaz and for Dave Chappelle to call everybody bitches? These witty, provocative essays ponder these and other thorny questions, linking the searing cultural issues implicit — and often explicit — in hip-hop to the weighty matters examined by the great philosophers of the past. The book shows that rap classics by Lauryn Hill, OutKast, and the Notorious B.I.G. can help uncover the meanings of love articulated in Plato's Symposium; that Rakim, 2Pac, and Nas can shed light on the conception of God's essence expressed in St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica; and explores the connection between Run-D.M.C., Snoop Dogg, and Hegel. Hip-Hop and Philosophy proves that rhyme and reason, far from being incompatible, can be mixed and mastered to contemplate life's most profound mysteries.

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Open Court

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0812697790

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Dark Ghettos

Injustice, Dissent, and Reform

By: Tommie Shelby

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Injustice, Dissent, and Reform

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067497462X

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Lovable Courageous Callie

By: Tommie Plier Mitchell

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Lovable Courageous Callie

By: Tommie Plier Mitchell

Lovable Courageous Callie This memoir spotlights Callie during her early years living in the country. She lives through a severe illness. As she grows older, she marries a handsome man who decides he wants to farm for a living. Living in the depression years brought about many challenges to this young couple. They have seven children in fifteen years. Callie finds herself alone at the age of thirty six. How will she make a living for herself and her children? Relatives and friends are convinced she cannot take care of seven children living in the backwoods of Alabama so they want her to give some of the children away. As she experiences the situations in her family, she becomes more determined that she will make it. Crises such as illnesses, snake bite, a gun shot wound, a burn and polio strengthens her resolve and dependence on her loving and caring God.

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1452097658

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Silent Gesture

The Autobiography of Tommie Smith

By: Tommie Smith,David Steele

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Silent Gesture

The Autobiography of Tommie Smith

By: Tommie Smith,David Steele

The story of the most famous protest in sports history, written by one of the men who staged it.

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Temple University Press

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1592136419

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Hip-Hop and Philosophy

Rhyme 2 Reason

By: Derrick Darby,Tommie Shelby

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Rhyme 2 Reason

By: Derrick Darby,Tommie Shelby

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Lovable Courageous Callie

By: Tommie Plier Mitchell

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Book's by Tommie Shelby

Dark Ghettos

Dark Ghettos

The Idea of Prison Abolition

The Idea of Prison Abolition

We Who Are Dark

We Who Are Dark

Work Inequality Basic Income

Work Inequality Basic Income

The Idea of Prison Abolition

The Idea of Prison Abolition

Hip-Hop and Philosophy

Hip-Hop and Philosophy

Dark Ghettos

Dark Ghettos

Lovable Courageous Callie

Lovable Courageous Callie

Silent Gesture

Silent Gesture

Hip-Hop and Philosophy

Hip-Hop and Philosophy

Lovable Courageous Callie

Lovable Courageous Callie

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