Outing Blue Privilege: A Call for Public Love Because Public Safety Is Not Enough
Outing Blue Privilege: A Call for Public Love Because Public Safety Is Not Enough
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“Outing Blue Privilege reads policing and prison through the eyes of a criminalized Galilean and the voices of the incarcerated themselves, and it refuses the thin comfort of ‘public safety.’ . . . A bracing, deeply felt reckoning.”—Michelle Alexander, author, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“Profound and powerful. The magnificent debut of one of the most brilliant and brave organic intellectuals in this country! Francois brings together the best of sophisticated analysis of the carceral state and culture with the depths of moral and spiritual vision.”—Cornel West, Union Theological Seminary, NYC
“Draws on the passions of a preacher, the dedication of a racial justice activist, and the brilliance of a theological scholar. Willie Francois’s Outing Blue Privilege is not merely a book about police and prison reform; it is a summons to reimagine democracy, Christianity, and justice itself.” –Khalil G. Muhammad, Princeton University
Public love is protest and policy advocacy. Policy advocacy is a civic prayer that impacts the soul of the nation.
Policing and punishment hover over us as matters of life and death. Our world aches for a species of love strong enough to undo the personal, collective, and structural terror and trauma of policing and punishment.
In our republic, it’s common to grapple with intrigues around public policy, public housing, public safety, and public benefits, but what about public love? In Outing Blue Privilege Willie Francois pushes readers into an activism of public love, the embodiment, creation of, and advocacy for common goodness, equity, and justice.
Willie Dwayne Francois III is an associate professor of theology at Union Theological Seminary, NYC, where he directs the master of professional studies program at Sing Sing and Bedford Hills Correctional Facilities. He also serves as senior pastor of Fountain Baptist Church in Summit, NJ, and is second vice president of the Progressive National Baptist Convention. He holds degrees from Morehouse College, Harvard Divinity School, and Emory University.
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ISBN 978-1-62698-656-5
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