Race Religion And Black Lives Matter
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Author | : Christopher Cameron |
Publisher | : Vanderbilt University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2021-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826502091 |
Black Lives Matter, like its predecessor movements, embodies flesh and blood through local organizing, national and global protests, hunger strikes, and numerous acts of civil disobedience. Chants like “All night! All day! We’re gonna fight for Freddie Gray!” and “No justice, no fear! Sandra Bland is marching here!” give voice simultaneously to the rage, truth, hope, and insurgency that sustain BLM. While BLM has generously welcomed a broad group of individuals whom religious institutions have historically resisted or rejected, contrary to general perceptions, religion neither has been absent nor excluded from the movement’s activities. This volume has a simple, but far-reaching argument: religion is an important thread in BLM. To advance this claim, Race, Religion, and Black Lives Matter examines religion’s place in the movement through the lenses of history, politics, and culture. While this collection is not exhaustive or comprehensive in its coverage of religion and BLM, it selectively anthologizes unique aspects of Black religious history, thought, and culture in relation to political struggle in the contemporary era. The chapters aim to document historical change in light of current trends and current events. The contributors analyze religion and BLM in a current historical moment fraught with aggressive, fascist, authoritarian tendencies and one shaped by profound ingenuity, creativity, and insightful perspectives on Black history and culture.
Author | : Amanda Nell Edgar |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Black lives matter movement |
ISBN | : 9781498572057 |
This book examines the complex relationship between Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter as it unfolds on social media and in offline interpersonal relationships. In so doing, it demonstrates the ongoing influence of history within the contemporary fight for social justice.
Author | : Segura, Olga M. |
Publisher | : Orbis Books |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2021-02-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1608338835 |
"Birth of a Movement tells the story of the Black Lives Matter movement through a Christian lens. Readers will gain a deeper understanding of the movement and why it can help the church, and the country, move closer to racial equality. Readers will understand why Black Lives Matter is a truly "Christ-like movement.""--
Author | : Christopher J. Lebron |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2023-05-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0197577377 |
A condensed and accessible intellectual history that traces the genesis of the ideas that have built into the #BlackLivesMatter movement in a bid to help us make sense of the emotions, demands, and arguments of present-day activists and public thinkers. Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and incendiary campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in the United States. The movement is only a few years old, but as Christopher J. Lebron argues in this book, the sentiment behind it is not; the plea and demand that "Black Lives Matter" comes out of a much older and richer tradition arguing for the equal dignity--and not just equal rights--of black people. In this updated edition, The Making of Black Lives Matter presents a condensed and accessible intellectual history of the #BlackLivesMatter movement and expands on the movement's relevancy. This edition includes a new introduction that explores how the movement's core ideas have been challenged, re-affirmed, and re-imagined during the white nationalism of the Trump years, as well as a new chapter that examines the ideas and importance of Angela Davis and Amiri Baraka as significant participants in the Black Power Movement and Black Arts Movement, respectively. Drawing on the work of these revolutionary black public intellectuals, as well as Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, Langston Hughes, Zora Neal Hurston, Anna Julia Cooper, Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, and Martin Luther King Jr., Lebron clarifies what it means to assert that "Black Lives Matter" when faced with contemporary instances of anti-black law enforcement. He also illuminates the crucial difference between the problem signaled by the social media hashtag and how we think that we ought to address the problem. As Lebron states, police body cameras, or even the exhortation for civil rights mean nothing in the absence of equality and dignity. To upset dominant practices of abuse, oppression, and disregard, we must reach instead for radical sensibility. Radical sensibility requires that we become cognizant of the history of black thought and activism in order to make sense of the emotions, demands, and argument of present-day activists and public thinkers. Only in this way can we truly embrace and pursue the idea of racial progress in America.
Author | : Kevin Cokley |
Publisher | : Cognella Academic Publishing |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021-10-19 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781793556233 |
Download your free digital copy of Making Black Lives Matter: Confronting Anti-Black Racism! At the heart of racist attitudes and behaviors is anti-Black racism, which simply put, is the disregard and disdain of Black life. Anti-Black racism negatively impacts every aspect of the lives of Black people. Edited by renowned scholar and psychologist Kevin Cokley, Making Black Lives Matter: Confronting Anti-Black Racism explores the history and contemporary circumstances of anti-Black racism, offers powerful personal anecdotes, and provides recommendations and solutions to challenging anti-Black racism in its various expressions. The book features chapters written by scholars, practitioners, activists, and students. The chapters reflect diverse perspectives from the Black community and writing styles that range from scholarly text supported by cited research to personal narratives that highlight the lived experiences of the contributors. The book focuses on the ways that anti-Black racism manifests and has been confronted across various domains of Black life using research, activism, social media, and therapy. In the words of Cokley: "It is my hope that the book will provide a blueprint for readers that will empower them to actively confront anti-Blackness wherever it exists, because this is the only way we will progress toward making Black lives matter." Making Black Lives Matter is a book that is meant to be shared! The goal for Cognella for publishing this book is to amplify the voices of those who need to be heard and to provide readers free access to critical scholarship on topics that affect our everyday lives. We''re proud to provide free digital copies of the book to anyone who wants to read it. So, we encourage you to spread the word and share the book with everyone you know. Learn more about Making Black Lives Matter: Confronting Anti-Black Racism! If you post about the book on social media, please use the hashtags #MakingBlackLivesMatter and #Cognella to join the conversation! Chapters and contributors include: Introduction - Kevin Cokley, Ph.D. Part I - Activism Chapter 1: "Historical Overview of the Black Struggle: Factors Affecting African American Activism" - Benson G. Cooke, Edwin J. Nichols, Schuyler C. Webb, Steven J. Jones, and Nia N. Williams Chapter 2: "Facilitating Black Survival and Wellness through Scholar-Activism" - Della V. Mosley, Pearis Bellamy, Garrett Ross, Jeannette Mejia, LaNya Lee, Carla Prieto, and Sunshine Adam Chapter 3: "Confronting Anti-Black Racism and Promoting Social Justice: Applications through Social Media" - Erlanger A. Turner, Maryam Jernigan-Noesi, and Isha Metzger Chapter 4: "#Say Her Name: The Impact of Gendered Racism and Misogynoir on the Lives of Black Women" - Jioni A. Lewis Part II - Public Policy Chapter 5: "A Tale of Three Cities: Segregation and Anti-Black Education Policy in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Austin" - Annika Olson Chapter 6: "Policing the Black Diaspora: Colonial Histories and Global Inequities in Policing and Carceral Punishment" - Ricardo Henrique Lowe, Jr. Chapter 7: "Building Health Equity among Black Young People with Lived Experience of Homelessness" - Norweeta G. Milburn and Dawn T. Bounds Chapter 8: "Anti-Blackness and Housing Inequality in the United States: A History of Housing Discrimination in Major Metropolitan Cities" - Tracie A. Lowe Part III - Community Voices Chapter 9: "Values-Driven, Community-Led Justice in Austin: A Project" - Sukyi McMahon and Chas Moore Chapter 10: "Leveraging the Power of Education to Confront Anti-Black Racism" - David W. Nowlin, Robert Muhammad, and Llyas Salahud-din Chapter 11: "Let the Òrìṣà Speak: Traditional Healing for Contemporary Times" - Ifetayo I. Ojelade Chapter 12: "The Victorious Mind: Addressing the Black Male in a Time of Turmoil" - Rico Mosby Part IV - Student Voices Chapter 13: "Unsung, Underpaid, and Unafraid: Black Graduate Students'' Response To Academic and Social Anti-Blackness" - Marlon Bailey, Shaina Hall, Carly Coleman, and Nolan Krueger Chapter 14: "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black" - Marlie Harris, Mercedes Holmes, Kuukuwa Koomson, and Brianna McBride Chapter 15: "From Segregation and Disinclusion: The Anti-Black Experience of Graduate School" - Keoshia Harris and TaShara Williams Read the press release to learn more about Making Black Lives Matter: Confronting Anti-Black Racism.
Author | : Mark D. Chapman |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2020-11-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3030534251 |
This volume, dedicated to the memory of Gerard Mannion (1970-2019), former Joseph and Winifred Amaturo Chair in Catholic Studies at Georgetown University, explores the topic of changing the church from a range of different theological perspectives. The volume contributors offer answers to questions such as: What needs to be changed in the universal church and in the particular denominations? How has change influenced the life of the church? What are the dangers that change brings with it? What awaits the church if it refuses to change? Many of the essays focus on people who have changed the church significantly and on events that have catalyzed change, for the better or for the worse. Some also present visions of change for particular Christian denominations, whether over the ordination of the women, different approaches to sexuality, reform of the magisterium, and many other issues related to change.
Author | : Edward Donalson |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 123 |
Release | : 2021-01-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1725271850 |
This work focuses on the implicit theological aspects of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. It examines, in conversation with theologians, the movement’s early published tenets in order to determine their implicit God claims. The study, conducted by a Pentecostal bishop, puts Black Liberation, Womanist, and Queer Liberation theologies in conversation with the praxis of the movement. An ecumenical group of Black pastors from across the United States met in an effort to determine the viability of the God claims of the movement in the life of the Black Church. As the research progressed, a new theological expression emerged as the real praxis of the movement; i.e., intersectional theology. This study project concludes with an exposition of the main points of this intersectional theology.
Author | : Stephen C. Finley |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2020-09-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1474473725 |
Critically analyses the historical, cultural and political dimensions of white religious rage in America, past and present This book sheds light on the phenomenon of white rage, and maps out the uneasy relationship between white anxiety, religious fervour, American identity and perceived black racial progress. Contributors to the volume examine the sociological construct of the "e;white labourer"e;, whose concerns and beliefs can be understood as religious in foundation, and uncover that white religious fervor correlates to notions of perceived white loss and perceived black progress. In discussions ranging from the Constitution to the Charlottesville riots to the evangelical community's uncritical support for Trump, the authors of this collection argue that it is not economics but religion and race that stand as the primary motivating factors for the rise of white rage and white supremacist sentiment in the United States.
Author | : Judith Weisenfeld |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2018-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1479865850 |
"When Joseph Nathaniel Beckles registered for the draft in the 1942, he rejected the racial categories presented to him and persuaded the registrar to cross out the check mark she had placed next to Negro and substitute "Ethiopian Hebrew." "God did not make us Negroes," declared religious leaders in black communities of the early twentieth-century urban North. They insisted that so-called Negroes are, in reality, Ethiopian Hebrews, Asiatic Muslims, or raceless children of God. Rejecting conventional American racial classification, many black southern migrants and immigrants from the Caribbean embraced these alternative visions of black history, racial identity, and collective future, thereby reshaping the black religious and racial landscape. Focusing on the Moorish Science Temple, the Nation of Islam, Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement, and a number of congregations of Ethiopian Hebrews, Judith Weisenfeld argues that the appeal of these groups lay not only in the new religious opportunities membership provided, but also in the novel ways they formulated a religio-racial identity. Arguing that members of these groups understood their religious and racial identities as divinely-ordained and inseparable, the book examines how this sense of self shaped their conceptions of their bodies, families, religious and social communities, space and place, and political sensibilities. Weisenfeld draws on extensive archival research and incorporates a rich array of sources to highlight the experiences of average members."--Publisher's description.
Author | : John McWhorter |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2021-10-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0593423062 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed linguist John McWhorter argues that an illiberal neoracism, disguised as antiracism, is hurting Black communities and weakening the American social fabric. Americans of good will on both the left and the right are secretly asking themselves the same question: how has the conversation on race in America gone so crazy? We’re told to read books and listen to music by people of color but that wearing certain clothes is “appropriation.” We hear that being white automatically gives you privilege and that being Black makes you a victim. We want to speak up but fear we’ll be seen as unwoke, or worse, labeled a racist. According to John McWhorter, the problem is that a well-meaning but pernicious form of antiracism has become, not a progressive ideology, but a religion—and one that’s illogical, unreachable, and unintentionally neoracist. In Woke Racism, McWhorter reveals the workings of this new religion, from the original sin of “white privilege” and the weaponization of cancel culture to ban heretics, to the evangelical fervor of the “woke mob.” He shows how this religion that claims to “dismantle racist structures” is actually harming his fellow Black Americans by infantilizing Black people, setting Black students up for failure, and passing policies that disproportionately damage Black communities. The new religion might be called “antiracism,” but it features a racial essentialism that’s barely distinguishable from racist arguments of the past. Fortunately for Black America, and for all of us, it’s not too late to push back against woke racism. McWhorter shares scripts and encouragement with those trying to deprogram friends and family. And most importantly, he offers a roadmap to justice that actually will help, not hurt, Black America.