For ex- colored people who have lost faith in white- body supremacy
It is the title of a new book that offers readings on race, racism and racial violence. Professors Chad Williams, Kidada Williams, and Keisha N. Blain, its authors, offer this collection of writings in hopes of strengthening our conversations about race after the Charleston massacre on June 17, 2015. On this terrible day, twenty- one […]
Read MoreDeadlines from seemingly every area of my life and stormy weather present a dual problem as to timeliness and motivation. While this was not on my list of things to do, I simply couldn’t pass up the opportunity to share this article with you. Published by the Huffington Post, “See Racism. See John See Racism. […]
Read MoreA couple of days ago, I posted a documentary on whiteness created by MTV. However brief, it demonstrated whiteness as a socially constructed reality as there is no white country or place of origin for white people. Even the designation of a Caucasian is a misnomer and so is Caucasoid thought it sounds more scientific. […]
Read MoreSoong- Chan Rah talks about the strengths and weaknesses of a transcendent imagination, exceptionalism, the racialization and nationalization of the image of God at Wheaton College. Let us think more deeply about the impact of the social construct of race on our theology and anthropology.
Read MoreRace is a modern invention of the European Enlightenment: “European Enlightenment thinkers retained the Greek ideal of reason, as well as this reason’s categorical function of discriminating between the cultured (now called the ‘civilized) and the ‘barbarian’ (the ‘savage’ or the ‘primitive’). It can be argued, in fact, that the Enlightenment’s declaration of itself as […]
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The Raceless Gospel 