Racial Impurity and Dangerous Bodies James Bennett-Levy and injury risk reduction

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Racial Impurity and Dangerous Bodies James Bennett-Levy and injury risk reductionRima L. Vesely Flad examines the religious and philosophical constructs of the black body in U. S. society, examining racialized ideas about purity and pollution as they have developed historically and as they are institutionalized today in racially disproportionate policing and mass incarceration. These systems work, she argues, to keeps threatening elements of society in a constant state of harassment and tension so that they are unable to pollute