Anti-Blackness and Christian ethics /

From police violence to mass incarceration, from environmental racism to micro-aggressions, the moral gravity of anti-black racism is attracting broad attention. How do Christian ideas, practices and institutions contribute to today's struggle for racial justice? And how do they need to be reim...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Lloyd, Vincent W., 1982- (Editor), Prevot, Andrew L. (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Maryknoll, New York : Orbis Books, [2017]
Subjects:	Racism > United States. United States > Race relations. Race relations > Religious aspects > Christianity. Church and social problems > United States. White supremacy movements > United States. Black lives matter movement.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Vincent W. Lloyd and Andrew Prevot
More than skin deep : the violence of anti-blackness / Kelly Brown Douglas
It's the theology, stupid! : coloniality, anti-blackness, and the bounds of "humanity" / Santiago Slabodsky
Black exceptionalism : anti-blackness supremacy in the afterlife of slavery / Katie Walker Grimes
White supremacy and anti-black logics in the making of U.S. Catholicism / M. Shawn Copeland
Sources of a black self? : ethics of authenticity in an era of anti-blackness / Andrew Prevot
Blackness and anethical performance / Ashon Crawley
The haunting of lynching spectacles : an ethics of response / Elias Ortega-Aponte
Eldridge Cleaver, George Jackson, and the ethics of love / Vincent W. Lloyd
Facing Pecola : anti-black sexism and a womanist soteriologic of black girl disrespectability / Eboni Marshall Turman
The erotic life of anti-blackness : police sexual violation of black bodies / Bryan N. Massingale.