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Only when we transform our minds will we find true liberation from our mental enslavements and misperceptions concerning race and crime. 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. 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. In Only For the Brave at Heart: Essays Rethinking Race, Crime, and Justice, readers will: learn new ways of thinking that can liberate our world from the injustice of our racist institutions assess the ways we create and frame the concepts of justice, race, and crime explore how love and compassion lead to meaningful actions that can reduce human suffering Pettiway has spent his career as an academic and Buddhist monk reflecting on and writing about the African American experience. Only For the Brave at Heart 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, Only For the Brave at Heart 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.

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"""This is an amazing collection of essays, highly intelligent, gifted with keen insights into human nuances, critical and analytical simultaneously, and remarkably rational."" -MOLEFI KETE ASANTE, Department of Africology and African American Studies, Temple UniversityAuthor of The Precarious Center or When Will the African Narrative Hold? ""In this beautifully written book, Professor Leon Pettiway asks us to emancipate ourselves from the mental slavery of substantialism. Using as his fold the analysis of crime and justice in the United States, he shows how the racial cartography of modernity imprisoned us all. Until we appreciate our interrelatedness and the folly of pursuing analyses and policies without compassion and love at their core, our work will always be unsatisfactory and reproduce racialism and domination. Thanks, Professor Pettiway, for helping advance a new approach for doing our research as well as for living our lives.""-EDUARDO BONILLA-SILVA, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of SociologyDepartment of Sociology, Duke UniversityAuthor of Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality ""Only for the Brave [at] Heart is a thought-provoking collection of essays challenging conventional thinking on race, crime, and justice. [Leon Pettiway] delves deep into the complexities of human nature, exploring how power dynamics and systemic oppression shape our worlds. With a keen eye for detail and a deep understanding of the human experience, Pettiway sheds light on often-overlooked aspects of these topics, encouraging readers to question their own conventional beliefs. Only for the Brave [at] Heart is a must-read for anyone seeking to better understand the complex world we live in and the troubling challenges faced in Western societies.""-JOE FEAGIN, Distinguished Professor, Texas A&M UniversityAuthor of Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations"

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Professor Leon E. Pettiway, the Venerable Lobzang Dorje, is Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, Bloomington, in the Department of Criminal Justice; a fully ordained Buddhist monk; and a longtime advocate for those caught in the cycle of substance abuse, crime, and the unjust administration of justice.

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