Only For the Brave At Heart

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Only when we transform our minds will we find true liberation from our mental enslavements and misperceptions concerning race and crime.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Social commentators and scholars have presented numerous theories on these topics. But while all lament the horrors associated with police violence racism and discrimination few so far have proposed a viable way to escape these sufferings. By taking a critical look at the writings of novelists social commentators and scholars in the fields of sociology criminology criminal justice African American studies philosophy and law Professor Leon E. Pettiway presents a series of essays that provide a path that liberates us from these sufferings. In doing so he provides a unique perspective that reframes the social realities of racial membership and institutional racism in the US and how they impact our perceptions of crime and social justice.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Buddhism and race are essential elements of these essays but Pettiway's commentary is also informed by an Afrocentric perspective. In these ways Pettiway examines our thoughts concerning race the causes of crime and the administration of justice. He uses these frameworks to demonstrate how our current modes of thinking reinforce and perpetuate white supremacy disenfranchise Africans in America influence our scholarly endeavors and frame today's public policies and social agendas.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Only For the Brave at Heart: Essays Rethinking Race Crime and Justice</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> readers will:</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>learn new ways of thinking that can liberate our world from the injustice of our racist institutions</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>assess the ways we create and frame the concepts of justice race and crime</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>explore how love and compassion lead to meaningful actions that can reduce human suffering</span></li></ul><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Pettiway has spent his career as an academic and Buddhist monk reflecting on and writing about the African American experience. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Only For the Brave at Heart </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>attempts to create an intellectual movement that reimagines how we think about the perceived differences that fracture our society and disenfranchise so many. In the end </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Only For the Brave at Heart </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is a critique and commentary on social justice. This powerful collection of essays about discrimination race and crime will prove to be one of the most important books about race in America today.</span></p>