Joseph Tucker Edmonds

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    Economic Impacts of Mass Incarceration on African American Families
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2016-04-08) Egunyomi, Ayobami; Tucker Edmonds, Joseph
    Mass incarceration refers to the high and growing rate of imprisonment amongst a particular population of people. The problem of mass incarceration is common among African Americans and has greatly affected their economic position and wealth accumulation over time. In light of this, the main objective of this study is to identify the economic impacts of mass incarceration on the families of the incarcerated. This research explores these impacts from two major perspectives: the direct impact on the family and children of the incarcerated and the impact on the incarcerated vis-à-vis the labor and education market. The primary method of research was through analyzing federal and state statistical information while referring to scholarly articles and literature. This study aims at fully assessing the economic impact of mass incarceration and identifying the best practices to lessen the negative impact. The goal of this research is to influence subsequent decisions and policies of the key players in the American Criminal Justice System on issues concerning incarceration of African Americans.
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    Diasporic Dances: Theological Musings Betwixt and Between Blackness
    (Taylor & Francis, 2017) Tucker Edmonds, Joseph L.
    This article brings Black theology in conversation with the diasporic character of Black identity as well as critical theorizing on late capital. By being attentive not only to the normative racializing strategy in the United States, but also attending to the persistence of color caste systems, the contemporary movement of global bodies and theories, and impact of multiple performances of Blacknesses on racial identification, this article argues for a new theological method. This attempt to "trouble" Black race and the Black body, its use in theological scholarship, and to identify its descriptive and analytic deficiencies are facilitated by conversations with African theology, critical race theory, Kelly Brown Douglas and Judith Bulter’s theories on gender and performance. Finally, this article argues for a theology of diaspora that takes seriously the troubling of race, the reconsideration of embodiedness, and the excavation of difference and variety as a liberatory project.
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    The Canonical Black Body: Alternative African American Religions and the Disruptive Politics of Sacrality
    (MDPI, 2018-01-09) Tucker Edmonds, Joseph Lennis; Religious Studies, School of Liberal Arts
    “The Canonical Black Body” argues that central to the study of African American religions is a focus on the black body and the production and engagement of canons on the sacred black body within the black public sphere. Furthermore, this essay suggests that, by paying attention to alternative African American religions in the twentieth century, we can better engage the relationship between African American religion and the long history of creating these canons on the black body, debating their relationship to black freedom, and circulating the canons to contest the oppressive, exclusive practices of modern democracy. Through a critical engagement of the fields of Black Theology and New Religious Movements and using the resources offered by Delores Williams’ accounts of variety and experience and Vincent Wimbush’s category of signifying, this essay will argue for how a return to the body provides resources and tools for not only theorizing African American religions but thinking about the production and creation of competing black publics, including the important role of alternative black sacred publics.
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    I Want to Break Free: Abolition and Full Participation in the Religious Studies Classroom
    (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022) Tucker Edmonds, Joseph L.
    “I Want to Break Free: Abolition and Full Participation in the Religious Studies Classroom” explores how the framework of abolition provides a model for organizing the religious studies classroom, challenging hegemonic disciplinary practices, and rethinking the contemporary implications of the carceral state. This chapter engages my course, “Religion Behind Bars,” as a space where religious communities and university classrooms are studied as sites and cyphers for abolition. Students and I use Vincent Lloyd and Joshua Dubler’s Break Every Yoke and Fred Moten’s The Undercommons as texts to think through the processes of abolition, full participation, and breaking free. Ultimately, I illustrate that this technique enables students to more thoughtfully engage the relationship between the carceral state, studying religion, and the idea of full participation. “Breaking Free,” therefore, becomes a way to do close readings of religions and the carceral state, as well as prepare students for a new relationship to engaged citizenship.
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    Black Joy, Full Participation, and the University Classroom
    (American Academy of Religion, 2022) Tucker Edmonds, Joseph L.
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    The Racial Pandemic Experienced by Black American Men: Cognitive–Behavioral and Structural Implications
    (APA, 2023) Gregory , Virgil L., Jr.; Tucker Edmonds, Joseph L.; School of Social Work
    Issues of systemic racism, mass incarceration, and cultural trauma (CT) are linked to emotional sequelae sufficient for treatment. However, attempts to explain the psychosocial reactions of Black American (BA) men to racial injustice and treat CT must be considered in the context of the current and past structural environments in which they live. The purpose of the present study was to obtain in-depth, thick description of two related factors: BA males’ perceptions of injustice during the racial pandemic and the consequent psychosocial implications for theory and treatment. An interview guide addressing racial injustice, CT, and coping was used to conduct individual and focus groups’ interviews with 20 BA men. The data were analyzed using thematic analysis. The qualitative analysis found five themes that collectively fulfilled the study’s aims: (1) A violation of the social contract for Black American men, (2) Black American male distrust for police, (3) tripartite Black American male, police fear and heterogeneous emotions, (4) spiritual, technological, appraisal, and relational Black American male coping for racial injustice, and (5) Black American male resilience despite permanence of the racial status quo. As it pertains to BA male racial injustice and the residual CT, the qualitative data suggested multidimensional interventions that are cognitive–behavioral and structural in nature may be worthy of further empirical investigation. From a CT intervention perspective, the five emerging themes can be directly translated into cognitive–behavioral principles regarding therapeutic rapport, cultural adaptation, emphasis on positivity, and collaborative empiricism when working with BA men.
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    Review of Richard Kent Evans's MOVE: An American Religion
    (Indiana University Press, 2023) Tucker Edmonds, Joseph