9780807042953-0807042951-Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics

Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics

ISBN-13: 9780807042953
ISBN-10: 0807042951
Edition: Reprint
Author: Michael Bronski, Kay Whitlock
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Beacon Press
Format: Paperback 184 pages
FREE US shipping

Book details

ISBN-13: 9780807042953
ISBN-10: 0807042951
Edition: Reprint
Author: Michael Bronski, Kay Whitlock
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Beacon Press
Format: Paperback 184 pages

Summary

Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics (ISBN-13: 9780807042953 and ISBN-10: 0807042951), written by authors Michael Bronski, Kay Whitlock, was published by Beacon Press in 2016. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

Description

A provocative book about rethinking hatred and violence in America

Over the centuries American society has been plagued by brutality fueled by disregard for the humanity of others: systemic violence against Native peoples, black people, and immigrants. More recent examples include the Steubenville rape case and the murders of Matthew Shepard, Jennifer Daugherty, Marcelo Lucero, and Trayvon Martin. Most Americans see such acts as driven by hate. But is this right? Longtime activists and political theorists Kay Whitlock and Michael Bronski boldly assert that American society’s reliance on the framework of hate to explain these acts is wrongheaded, misleading, and ultimately harmful.

All too often Americans choose to believe that terrible cruelty is aberrant, caused primarily by “extremists” and misfits. The inevitable remedy of intensified government-based policing, increased surveillance, and harsher punishments has never worked and does not work now. Stand-your-ground laws; the US prison system; police harassment of people of color, women, and LGBT people; and the so-called war on terror demonstrate that the remedies themselves are forms of institutionalized violence.

Considering Hate challenges easy assumptions and failed solutions, arguing that “hate violence” reflects existing cultural norms. Drawing upon social science, philosophy, theology, film, and literature, the authors examine how hate and common, even ordinary, forms of individual and group violence are excused and normalized in popular culture and political discussion. This massive denial of brutal reality profoundly warps society’s ideas about goodness and justice.

Whitlock and Bronski invite readers to radically reimagine the meaning and structures of justice within a new framework of community wholeness, collective responsibility, and civic goodness.
Rate this book Rate this book

We would LOVE it if you could help us and other readers by reviewing the book