Beyond Death and Jail: Anti-Blackness, Black Masculinity, and the Demonic Imagination - Hardcoverby Ronald B. Neal (Author) Beyond Death and Jail explores death and the institutional machinery of policing, surveillance, and containment which breeds it. It seeks to explain why homicide, accompanied by an apparatus of jails, detention centers, prisons, and criminal courts haunts segments of America's Black population, Black boys, Black male youth, and Black men. Author Biography Ronald B. Neal is associate professor of religion in the Department