Race, Africana Communication, and Criminal Justice Reform

Detra D. Johnson is assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies at the University of Houston.Marilyn D. Lovett is associate professor of psychology at Clark Atlanta University.Jeremy Harris Lipschultz is Peter Kiewit Distinguished Professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Potholes in my Lawn: Rooting out Racism in the Criminal Justice SystemChapter 3: Educational and Criminal Justice Reform: Transformative Justice Reform by Disrupting, Dismantling, and Reversing the Disproportionate Channels of People of Color into the School to Prison PipelineChapter 4: Social Media Communication and Networks: The Ongoing #BlackLivesMatter StruggleChapter 5: Black Movement in White Spaces: How Youth Online Protests Challenge “No-Excuses” Charter PracticesChapter 6: Today’s U.S. Supreme Court and the Future of the First Amendment: Donald J. Trump, U.S. Freedom of Expression, and Possible Nullification of New York Times v. SullivanChapter 7: Speak It into Existence: An Afrocentric Examination of the Spoken Word as Energetic Human Potential & Social JusticeChapter 8: Pronouncing Sentences: Producing Narratives of Incarceration and Black MenChapter 9: Intergroup Dialogue at the Intersection of Difference: Social Interactions as a Model for Intergroup Understanding, Relationships, and ActionChapter 10: Conclusion: The Conyers Scholarly Legacy