A. Mikulich & L. Cassidy 
The Scandal of White Complicity in US Hyper-incarceration 
A Nonviolent Spirituality of White Resistance

The Scandal of White Complicity and US Hyper-incarceration is a groundbreaking exploration of the moral role of white people in the disproportionate incarceration of African-Americans and Latinos in the United States.

Table of Content

Table of Contents

Series Editor Preface; Mary Jo Iozzio

Foreword; Sister Helen Prejean

Introduction: The Invisibility of White Complicity in Hyper-incarceration; Laurie Cassidy and Alex Mikulich

Acknowledgments



Part I: STRUCTURE

Chapter 1: Hyper-Incarceration of African Americans and Latinos in Historical Context; Alex Mikulich

Vital Prison Statistics

The Construction of Whiteness in U.S. Law

The Enduring ‘Cultural Logic’ of Lynching and Three White Myths

The Emergence of the ‘New Jim Crow’

The Economic Perversity of ‘Fortress America’

Chapter 2: White Complicity in U.S. Hyper-incarceration; Alex Mikulich

White Soul

The Pathology of White Segregation: An Enduring Marker of Race in America

The Historical Structuring of American Segregation

White Habitus and the Four Walls of White Imprisonment

Conclusion



Part II: CULTURE

Chapter 3: The Myth of the Dangerous Black Man; Laurie Cassidy

The Picture in Our Heads

Slaveryand the Myth of the Dangerous Black Man

White Christian Amnesia and Anamnesis

Chapter 4: Hip Hop and the Seditious Reinvention of the Dangerous Black Man; Laurie Cassidy

The Prophetic Voice of Hip Hop

Hip Hop and the Reinvention of Nat Turner

Conclusion



Part III: SPIRITUALITY

Chapter 5: A Spirituality of White Non-violent Resistance to the Reality of Hyper incarceration; Margaret Pfeil

The Beatitudes: A Framework for a Nonviolent Spirituality of White Resistance

Chapter 6: Contemplative Action: Toward Nonviolent White Resistance to Hyper-

Incarceration; Margaret Pfeil

Making Whiteness Visible: Complicity

Accountability and Awareness

The Circle Process: A Public Space of Accountability

Systemic Change: Facing the Dark Night of Impasse

Conclusion



Index

About the author

Alex Mikulich is Research Fellow on Race and Poverty at the Jesuit Social Research Institute of Loyola University New Orleans, USA. He is co-editor and contributor to
Interrupting White Privilege: Catholic Theologians Break the Silence, which was awarded the College Theology Society’s 2008 Book of the Year Award. Alex serves the Pax Christi USA Anti-Racism Team, is a leader of Catholics Committed to Repeal of the Death Penalty in Louisiana, and is immersed in anti-racist research and advocacy in New Orleans and Mississippi.

Laurie Cassidy is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA. She is co-editor and contributor to
Interrupting White Privilege: Catholic Theologians Break the Silence, which was awarded the College Theology Society’s 2008 Book of the Year Award. She has been a spiritual director for over twenty years and is concerned with contemplation as a mystical political practice for personal and social transformation.

Margaret Pfeil is Assistant Professor of Theology and a Fellow of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is a founding member and resident of St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker House in South Bend. She organized and served as facilitator for the conference on ‘White Privilege: Implications for the Catholic University, the Church, and Theology’ held at the University of Notre Dame in March 2006.