Kathleen Garces-Foley
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195311082
- eISBN:
- 9780199785322
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195311082.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter examines the theological foundations of the racial reconciliation movement, which has played an important role in Evergreen's development. After discussing the biblical basis of racial ...
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This chapter examines the theological foundations of the racial reconciliation movement, which has played an important role in Evergreen's development. After discussing the biblical basis of racial reconciliation theology and its development into a larger movement within mainstream evangelicalism, Evergreen's unique approach to racial reconciliation is assessed, an approach that differs significantly from the color-blind model.Less
This chapter examines the theological foundations of the racial reconciliation movement, which has played an important role in Evergreen's development. After discussing the biblical basis of racial reconciliation theology and its development into a larger movement within mainstream evangelicalism, Evergreen's unique approach to racial reconciliation is assessed, an approach that differs significantly from the color-blind model.
Kathleen Garces-Foley
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195311082
- eISBN:
- 9780199785322
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195311082.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter explores the role young adults are playing in the push toward multiethnic churches and the converging factors — both secular and religious — that have contributed to their diversity. ...
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This chapter explores the role young adults are playing in the push toward multiethnic churches and the converging factors — both secular and religious — that have contributed to their diversity. InterVarsity has played a key role in the lives of many young people at Evergreen. The ways in which InterVarsity in Los Angeles addresses diversity and racial reconciliation is examined. While many white evangelicals appeal to a color-blind, individual reconciliation approach to diversity, InterVarsity in Los Angeles has stressed ethnic diversity and, increasingly, social justice in its teaching on racial reconciliation.Less
This chapter explores the role young adults are playing in the push toward multiethnic churches and the converging factors — both secular and religious — that have contributed to their diversity. InterVarsity has played a key role in the lives of many young people at Evergreen. The ways in which InterVarsity in Los Angeles addresses diversity and racial reconciliation is examined. While many white evangelicals appeal to a color-blind, individual reconciliation approach to diversity, InterVarsity in Los Angeles has stressed ethnic diversity and, increasingly, social justice in its teaching on racial reconciliation.
Peter Slade
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195372625
- eISBN:
- 9780199871728
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372625.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Mission Mississippi—the largest sustained ecumenical racial reconciliation initiative in the United States today—claims that it is “Changing Mississippi one relationship at a time.” In Open ...
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Mission Mississippi—the largest sustained ecumenical racial reconciliation initiative in the United States today—claims that it is “Changing Mississippi one relationship at a time.” In Open Friendship in a Closed Society, Peter Slade offers a theological examination of Mission Mississippi's claim that a theology of reconciliation located in individual friendships can change a racialized and inequitable society. Drawing on his own fieldwork, interviews with participants, and historical research, Slade explores what academic theology can learn from Mission Mississippi's experiences and practices of racial reconciliation. Engaging with recent works in sociology, history, and theology, Open Friendship in a Closed Society is both a significant cultural and historical study of religion in Mississippi and an accessible interdisciplinary work of interest to both academics and lay people concerned with race, religion, and reconciliation. Slade finds, through the interpretive lens of Jürgen Moltmann's theology of open friendship, a way to view and engage with the lived theology of Mission Mississippi. The open friendship of Jesus challenges Mission Mississippi and those in faith-based reconciliation initiatives to cultivate practices that subvert and oppose the injustices perpetuated in closed societies.Less
Mission Mississippi—the largest sustained ecumenical racial reconciliation initiative in the United States today—claims that it is “Changing Mississippi one relationship at a time.” In Open Friendship in a Closed Society, Peter Slade offers a theological examination of Mission Mississippi's claim that a theology of reconciliation located in individual friendships can change a racialized and inequitable society. Drawing on his own fieldwork, interviews with participants, and historical research, Slade explores what academic theology can learn from Mission Mississippi's experiences and practices of racial reconciliation. Engaging with recent works in sociology, history, and theology, Open Friendship in a Closed Society is both a significant cultural and historical study of religion in Mississippi and an accessible interdisciplinary work of interest to both academics and lay people concerned with race, religion, and reconciliation. Slade finds, through the interpretive lens of Jürgen Moltmann's theology of open friendship, a way to view and engage with the lived theology of Mission Mississippi. The open friendship of Jesus challenges Mission Mississippi and those in faith-based reconciliation initiatives to cultivate practices that subvert and oppose the injustices perpetuated in closed societies.
Lawrie Balfour
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195377293
- eISBN:
- 9780199893768
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195377293.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter begins with a brief discussion of the controversy sparked by the Virginia General Assembly's introduction of a joint resolution on January 10, 2007, atoning for Virginia's part in the ...
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This chapter begins with a brief discussion of the controversy sparked by the Virginia General Assembly's introduction of a joint resolution on January 10, 2007, atoning for Virginia's part in the enslavement of Africans and calling for racial reconciliation. It then sets out the purpose of the book, which is to come to terms with political theorists' reluctance to treat race and racial injustice as fundamental to the study of modern democratic life. Drawing on the writing of W. E. B. Du Bois, the book examines how his efforts to craft a usable past from unspeakable loss can inspire efforts to conceive alternative, more democratic futures. An overview of the subsequent chapters is presented.Less
This chapter begins with a brief discussion of the controversy sparked by the Virginia General Assembly's introduction of a joint resolution on January 10, 2007, atoning for Virginia's part in the enslavement of Africans and calling for racial reconciliation. It then sets out the purpose of the book, which is to come to terms with political theorists' reluctance to treat race and racial injustice as fundamental to the study of modern democratic life. Drawing on the writing of W. E. B. Du Bois, the book examines how his efforts to craft a usable past from unspeakable loss can inspire efforts to conceive alternative, more democratic futures. An overview of the subsequent chapters is presented.
Angela Tarango
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195393408
- eISBN:
- 9780199894390
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195393408.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, World Religions
By the 1920s, when the Assemblies of God began its Home Missions, centuries of colonization and missionaries had wrecked traditional Native American life. North American Native Pentecostals entered a ...
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By the 1920s, when the Assemblies of God began its Home Missions, centuries of colonization and missionaries had wrecked traditional Native American life. North American Native Pentecostals entered a new world of belief but blended Native and Pentecostal bodily experiences of singing, dancing, and healing. Struggling for autonomy, Native leaders implemented the “indigenous principle”—rooting Pentecostalism within their own cultures. Native Pentecostals redefined healing to meet their needs as colonized peoples: emphasizing healing from bitterness of past wrongs, racism, paternalism, and breaches of trust by White missionaries, and focused on reconciliation and divine judgment. Native missionaries fought stereotypes and misconceptions through publications about the Cherokee Trail of Tears and Navajo Long Walk. Native Pentecostals pushed the flexible boundaries of Pentecostalism and worked out their own religious identities—embracing their Pentecostal and Native halves and laying the groundwork for the modern racial reconciliation movement among Promise Keepers and the Christian Right.Less
By the 1920s, when the Assemblies of God began its Home Missions, centuries of colonization and missionaries had wrecked traditional Native American life. North American Native Pentecostals entered a new world of belief but blended Native and Pentecostal bodily experiences of singing, dancing, and healing. Struggling for autonomy, Native leaders implemented the “indigenous principle”—rooting Pentecostalism within their own cultures. Native Pentecostals redefined healing to meet their needs as colonized peoples: emphasizing healing from bitterness of past wrongs, racism, paternalism, and breaches of trust by White missionaries, and focused on reconciliation and divine judgment. Native missionaries fought stereotypes and misconceptions through publications about the Cherokee Trail of Tears and Navajo Long Walk. Native Pentecostals pushed the flexible boundaries of Pentecostalism and worked out their own religious identities—embracing their Pentecostal and Native halves and laying the groundwork for the modern racial reconciliation movement among Promise Keepers and the Christian Right.
Curtiss Paul DeYoung
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195152159
- eISBN:
- 9780199849659
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195152159.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Howard Thurman, who played a significant role in racial reconciliation in the United States during the period between the 1940s and the 1970s, was included in the group of African American religious ...
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Howard Thurman, who played a significant role in racial reconciliation in the United States during the period between the 1940s and the 1970s, was included in the group of African American religious leaders who journeyed to India for a pilgrimage in 1935. One of the most important highlights of this trip involved a conversation with Mohandas Gandhi regarding race relations in the United States and how even in the church, the color bar still had influence and power. Thurman then realized that the color bar was honored in the Christian religion. This chapter explores some of the efforts and experimentations made to integrate gradually racial reconciliation and multiracial congregations, with Howard Thurman's insights being used as a starting point.Less
Howard Thurman, who played a significant role in racial reconciliation in the United States during the period between the 1940s and the 1970s, was included in the group of African American religious leaders who journeyed to India for a pilgrimage in 1935. One of the most important highlights of this trip involved a conversation with Mohandas Gandhi regarding race relations in the United States and how even in the church, the color bar still had influence and power. Thurman then realized that the color bar was honored in the Christian religion. This chapter explores some of the efforts and experimentations made to integrate gradually racial reconciliation and multiracial congregations, with Howard Thurman's insights being used as a starting point.
Roy Brooks
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520239418
- eISBN:
- 9780520939738
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520239418.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This book reframes one of the most important, controversial, and misunderstood issues of our time in this far-reaching reassessment of the growing debate on black reparation. It shifts the focus of ...
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This book reframes one of the most important, controversial, and misunderstood issues of our time in this far-reaching reassessment of the growing debate on black reparation. It shifts the focus of the issue from the backward-looking question of compensation for victims to a more forward-looking racial reconciliation. Offering a comprehensive discussion of the history of the black redress movement, the book puts forward a powerful new plan for repairing the damaged relationship between the federal government and black Americans in the aftermath of 240 years of slavery and another 100 years of government-sanctioned racial segregation. Key to the author's vision is the government's clear signal that it understands the magnitude of the atrocity it committed against an innocent people, that it takes full responsibility, and that it publicly requests forgiveness—in other words, that it apologizes. The government must make that apology believable, the author explains, by a tangible act which turns the rhetoric of apology into a meaningful, material reality; that is, by reparation. Apology and reparation together constitute atonement. Atonement, in turn, imposes a reciprocal civic obligation on black Americans to forgive, which allows them to start relinquishing racial resentment and to begin trusting the government's commitment to racial equality. The author's bold proposal situates the argument for reparations within a larger, international framework—namely, a post-Holocaust vision of government responsibility for genocide, slavery, apartheid, and similar acts of injustice. The book makes the case that only with this spirit of heightened morality, identity, egalitarianism, and restorative justice can genuine racial reconciliation take place in America.Less
This book reframes one of the most important, controversial, and misunderstood issues of our time in this far-reaching reassessment of the growing debate on black reparation. It shifts the focus of the issue from the backward-looking question of compensation for victims to a more forward-looking racial reconciliation. Offering a comprehensive discussion of the history of the black redress movement, the book puts forward a powerful new plan for repairing the damaged relationship between the federal government and black Americans in the aftermath of 240 years of slavery and another 100 years of government-sanctioned racial segregation. Key to the author's vision is the government's clear signal that it understands the magnitude of the atrocity it committed against an innocent people, that it takes full responsibility, and that it publicly requests forgiveness—in other words, that it apologizes. The government must make that apology believable, the author explains, by a tangible act which turns the rhetoric of apology into a meaningful, material reality; that is, by reparation. Apology and reparation together constitute atonement. Atonement, in turn, imposes a reciprocal civic obligation on black Americans to forgive, which allows them to start relinquishing racial resentment and to begin trusting the government's commitment to racial equality. The author's bold proposal situates the argument for reparations within a larger, international framework—namely, a post-Holocaust vision of government responsibility for genocide, slavery, apartheid, and similar acts of injustice. The book makes the case that only with this spirit of heightened morality, identity, egalitarianism, and restorative justice can genuine racial reconciliation take place in America.
Roy L. Brooks
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520239418
- eISBN:
- 9780520939738
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520239418.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
Racial reconciliation must be the primary purpose of slave redress. When Americans accept the idea of slave redress, they welcome the belief that people must go back in time and place to right a ...
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Racial reconciliation must be the primary purpose of slave redress. When Americans accept the idea of slave redress, they welcome the belief that people must go back in time and place to right a heavy wrong and to make the present and future more racially harmonious. They comprehend that there is a price to pay for collective amnesia, for that type of destruction. Some might say that racial reconciliation is unnecessary or that the past should remain buried. These proficient people miss many points. They miss the point that the federal government committed a horrific racial atrocity for which it has never apologized. They miss the point that the government has little credibility on racial matters with the great majority of its black citizens. And they miss the point that black Americans continue to endure the lingering effects of slavery and Jim Crow.Less
Racial reconciliation must be the primary purpose of slave redress. When Americans accept the idea of slave redress, they welcome the belief that people must go back in time and place to right a heavy wrong and to make the present and future more racially harmonious. They comprehend that there is a price to pay for collective amnesia, for that type of destruction. Some might say that racial reconciliation is unnecessary or that the past should remain buried. These proficient people miss many points. They miss the point that the federal government committed a horrific racial atrocity for which it has never apologized. They miss the point that the government has little credibility on racial matters with the great majority of its black citizens. And they miss the point that black Americans continue to endure the lingering effects of slavery and Jim Crow.
Michael Jessup
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195310566
- eISBN:
- 9780199851072
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195310566.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter focuses on how hate organizations theologically frame race and ethnicity, and provides a biblical response to hate theology. In particular, it describes white hate groups, examining ...
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This chapter focuses on how hate organizations theologically frame race and ethnicity, and provides a biblical response to hate theology. In particular, it describes white hate groups, examining their usage of biblical passages and images in the service of racial hatred. The origin of biblical/theological origins of white racial superiority is shown. A diagnostic theology identifies some aspect of social life as problematic and in need of change, while the prognostic ideology illustrates how the problems in the diagnostic frame are to be addressed. Moreover, the four biblical principles that emerge: the theologies of the family of God, shalom, oneness, and racial reconciliation, in order to neutralize the theology of hate are examined. When Christians embrace complexity and serious reflection, and take their responsibilities as members of the body of Christ and their citizenship seriously, the consuming theology of hate will grow dim.Less
This chapter focuses on how hate organizations theologically frame race and ethnicity, and provides a biblical response to hate theology. In particular, it describes white hate groups, examining their usage of biblical passages and images in the service of racial hatred. The origin of biblical/theological origins of white racial superiority is shown. A diagnostic theology identifies some aspect of social life as problematic and in need of change, while the prognostic ideology illustrates how the problems in the diagnostic frame are to be addressed. Moreover, the four biblical principles that emerge: the theologies of the family of God, shalom, oneness, and racial reconciliation, in order to neutralize the theology of hate are examined. When Christians embrace complexity and serious reflection, and take their responsibilities as members of the body of Christ and their citizenship seriously, the consuming theology of hate will grow dim.
Lydia Bean
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691161303
- eISBN:
- 9781400852611
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691161303.003.0010
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sociology of Religion
This concluding chapter discusses how the Christian Right is no longer the only public voice speaking for American evangelicals. Since 2004, alternative leaders and advocacy groups have stepped out ...
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This concluding chapter discusses how the Christian Right is no longer the only public voice speaking for American evangelicals. Since 2004, alternative leaders and advocacy groups have stepped out of the shadows to broaden the evangelical agenda. New voices appeal to evangelicals to consider poverty, creation care, and racial reconciliation as important moral issues. But this broadened political agenda will only gain traction with rank-and-file evangelicals if it becomes part of local religious practice. It is not enough to engage in top-down messaging about moral values. If these elites seek to challenge the hegemony of the Christian Right, they need to find substitutes for the powerful identity-work that goes on every week in evangelical congregations.Less
This concluding chapter discusses how the Christian Right is no longer the only public voice speaking for American evangelicals. Since 2004, alternative leaders and advocacy groups have stepped out of the shadows to broaden the evangelical agenda. New voices appeal to evangelicals to consider poverty, creation care, and racial reconciliation as important moral issues. But this broadened political agenda will only gain traction with rank-and-file evangelicals if it becomes part of local religious practice. It is not enough to engage in top-down messaging about moral values. If these elites seek to challenge the hegemony of the Christian Right, they need to find substitutes for the powerful identity-work that goes on every week in evangelical congregations.
J. Derek McNeil and Carlos Pozzi
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195310566
- eISBN:
- 9780199851072
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195310566.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter discusses the greater knowledge in multicultural competency that has been gained over the years and the ideas that are still being explored. It also describes the need for greater ...
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This chapter discusses the greater knowledge in multicultural competency that has been gained over the years and the ideas that are still being explored. It also describes the need for greater multicultural competency and outlines the ways in which multicultural competency can be fostered. A few implications for the racial reconciliation movement in the evangelical church are given as well. The term multicultural is used more narrowly as it relates to ethnic and racial diversity, but it is important to note that within psychology the term is also used to address gender, ability, sexual orientation, and religious differences. Moreover, a rationale for pursuing multicultural competencies, a more functional definition of those competencies, and a strategy for developing them are reported. It is hoped that the church (and its members) realizes that there will be little ethnic or racial reconciliation without a comprehensive approach to increasing the motivation and the skills of its members.Less
This chapter discusses the greater knowledge in multicultural competency that has been gained over the years and the ideas that are still being explored. It also describes the need for greater multicultural competency and outlines the ways in which multicultural competency can be fostered. A few implications for the racial reconciliation movement in the evangelical church are given as well. The term multicultural is used more narrowly as it relates to ethnic and racial diversity, but it is important to note that within psychology the term is also used to address gender, ability, sexual orientation, and religious differences. Moreover, a rationale for pursuing multicultural competencies, a more functional definition of those competencies, and a strategy for developing them are reported. It is hoped that the church (and its members) realizes that there will be little ethnic or racial reconciliation without a comprehensive approach to increasing the motivation and the skills of its members.
Stephen R. Haynes
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780195395051
- eISBN:
- 9780199979288
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195395051.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter explores the history of Second Presbyterian Church in Memphis after the kneel-in crisis that engulfed the church in the mid-1960s. Its focus is the ways the church has acknowledged and ...
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This chapter explores the history of Second Presbyterian Church in Memphis after the kneel-in crisis that engulfed the church in the mid-1960s. Its focus is the ways the church has acknowledged and sought to address its exclusion of African Americans from the church at that time. The chapter traces the church's emphasis on urban ministry and racial reconciliation in Memphis, particularly since the 1990s. The chapter tells the story of Second Presbyterian's failed attempt to partner with an African American congregation to found an interracial congregation at Clayborn Temple, former home of Second Presbyterian and later headquarters for the Sanitation Workers' strike of 1968. It concludes by highlighting external and internal perspectives on the church's efforts to address the problems of racial injustice and alienation.Less
This chapter explores the history of Second Presbyterian Church in Memphis after the kneel-in crisis that engulfed the church in the mid-1960s. Its focus is the ways the church has acknowledged and sought to address its exclusion of African Americans from the church at that time. The chapter traces the church's emphasis on urban ministry and racial reconciliation in Memphis, particularly since the 1990s. The chapter tells the story of Second Presbyterian's failed attempt to partner with an African American congregation to found an interracial congregation at Clayborn Temple, former home of Second Presbyterian and later headquarters for the Sanitation Workers' strike of 1968. It concludes by highlighting external and internal perspectives on the church's efforts to address the problems of racial injustice and alienation.
Matthew Pratt Guterl
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781479844630
- eISBN:
- 9781479828210
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479844630.003.0002
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration
The first chapter acknowledges that structures matter. Matthew Pratt Guterl discusses the practice of racial passing in the supposed post-racial age, dwelling on what it tells us about structures—and ...
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The first chapter acknowledges that structures matter. Matthew Pratt Guterl discusses the practice of racial passing in the supposed post-racial age, dwelling on what it tells us about structures—and about racial reconciliation. Guterl takes up the story of Rachel Dolezal—with the benefit of a year’s reflection—and her “trans-racial” subject position. He reads it, as she did, through the experiences of Caitlyn Jenner, the trans-gender sports figure. He asks what it means to celebrate racial self-fashioning as if it were akin to gender transitioning and thinks about the broader cultural responses to Dolezal’s story of passing and subterfuge.Less
The first chapter acknowledges that structures matter. Matthew Pratt Guterl discusses the practice of racial passing in the supposed post-racial age, dwelling on what it tells us about structures—and about racial reconciliation. Guterl takes up the story of Rachel Dolezal—with the benefit of a year’s reflection—and her “trans-racial” subject position. He reads it, as she did, through the experiences of Caitlyn Jenner, the trans-gender sports figure. He asks what it means to celebrate racial self-fashioning as if it were akin to gender transitioning and thinks about the broader cultural responses to Dolezal’s story of passing and subterfuge.
Naomi Murakawa
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781479844630
- eISBN:
- 9781479828210
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479844630.003.0005
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration
This chapter traces the history of calls for “racial reconciliation” in policing and, in so doing, identifies the potential pitfalls of current reform efforts. New proposals for “racial ...
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This chapter traces the history of calls for “racial reconciliation” in policing and, in so doing, identifies the potential pitfalls of current reform efforts. New proposals for “racial reconciliation” fit within an old architecture of policing reform, extending from the pursuit of stable police “race relations” in the 1950s, to healthy “police-community relations” in the late 1960s, and to proactive “community-oriented policing” of the 1990s. Tracing this post–civil rights history of racial reconciliation in policing, Naomi Murakawa identifies potential dangers that lurk within well-intentioned efforts to reconcile police and black communities through truth-telling forums and procedural justice. Murakawa concludes that the language of “racial reconciliation” demands reform but resists normative commitments, effectively translating the potentially transformative work of Black Lives Matter into a set of technocratic, proceduralist fixes with an air of emotional sensitivity.Less
This chapter traces the history of calls for “racial reconciliation” in policing and, in so doing, identifies the potential pitfalls of current reform efforts. New proposals for “racial reconciliation” fit within an old architecture of policing reform, extending from the pursuit of stable police “race relations” in the 1950s, to healthy “police-community relations” in the late 1960s, and to proactive “community-oriented policing” of the 1990s. Tracing this post–civil rights history of racial reconciliation in policing, Naomi Murakawa identifies potential dangers that lurk within well-intentioned efforts to reconcile police and black communities through truth-telling forums and procedural justice. Murakawa concludes that the language of “racial reconciliation” demands reform but resists normative commitments, effectively translating the potentially transformative work of Black Lives Matter into a set of technocratic, proceduralist fixes with an air of emotional sensitivity.
Araminta Stone Johnston
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604738285
- eISBN:
- 9781604738292
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604738285.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
The story of the civil rights movement is not simply the history of its major players but is also the stories of a host of lesser-known individuals whose actions were essential to the movement’s ...
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The story of the civil rights movement is not simply the history of its major players but is also the stories of a host of lesser-known individuals whose actions were essential to the movement’s successes. Duncan M. Gray Jr., an Episcopal priest who served various Mississippi parishes between 1953 and 1974, when he was elected bishop of Mississippi, is one of these individuals. This book is his story. From one perspective, Gray (b. 1926) would seem an unlikely spokesman for racial equality and reconciliation. He could have been content simply to become a member of the white, male Mississippi “club.” Gray could have embraced a comfortable life and ignored the burning realities around him. But he chose instead to use his priesthood to speak in unpopular but prophetic support of justice and equality for African Americans. From his student days at the seminary at the University of the South, to his first church in Cleveland, Mississippi, and most famously to St. Peter’s Parish in Oxford, where he confronted rioters in 1962, Gray steadfastly and fearlessly fought the status quo. He continued to work for racial reconciliation, inside and outside of the church, throughout his life. This biography tells not only Gray’s story, but also reveals the times and people that helped make him. The book’s question is “What makes a good person?” The book suggests there is much to learn from Gray’s choices and his struggle.Less
The story of the civil rights movement is not simply the history of its major players but is also the stories of a host of lesser-known individuals whose actions were essential to the movement’s successes. Duncan M. Gray Jr., an Episcopal priest who served various Mississippi parishes between 1953 and 1974, when he was elected bishop of Mississippi, is one of these individuals. This book is his story. From one perspective, Gray (b. 1926) would seem an unlikely spokesman for racial equality and reconciliation. He could have been content simply to become a member of the white, male Mississippi “club.” Gray could have embraced a comfortable life and ignored the burning realities around him. But he chose instead to use his priesthood to speak in unpopular but prophetic support of justice and equality for African Americans. From his student days at the seminary at the University of the South, to his first church in Cleveland, Mississippi, and most famously to St. Peter’s Parish in Oxford, where he confronted rioters in 1962, Gray steadfastly and fearlessly fought the status quo. He continued to work for racial reconciliation, inside and outside of the church, throughout his life. This biography tells not only Gray’s story, but also reveals the times and people that helped make him. The book’s question is “What makes a good person?” The book suggests there is much to learn from Gray’s choices and his struggle.
Carol V. R. George
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- October 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190231088
- eISBN:
- 9780190231118
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190231088.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
What can the small Mt. Zion Methodist Church in rural Mississippi teach us about the American Dilemma over race? Quite a lot, it turns out. Founded by Reconstruction Methodists in 1879, Mt. Zion ...
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What can the small Mt. Zion Methodist Church in rural Mississippi teach us about the American Dilemma over race? Quite a lot, it turns out. Founded by Reconstruction Methodists in 1879, Mt. Zion would later endure decades of harsh control by the white supremacist state. Segregated by Jim Crow laws and attitudes, Mt. Zion was also separated from its parent religious body, the Methodist denomination, between 1939 and 1968, as white Methodists created the segregated Central Jurisdiction for its black members: the move appeared as church-mandated Jim Crow. Mt. Zion survived the attacks by the state, and the benign neglect of the Methodists, maintaining its belief in an inclusive society by hosting the civil rights workers of Freedom Summer, who planned a school for black voters at the church. The church was drawn into the Klan conspiracy that included the murder of the three civil rights workers, the burning of Mt. Zion, and the beating of some of its members. Instead of grieving, the members of Mt. Zion began an annual ceremony that commemorated the death of the three and their mission to advance black rights, especially voting. The commemorative service is now an integral part of state and local efforts to create something new in this very red state, an alternate Mississippi that is inclusive, modern, and open.Less
What can the small Mt. Zion Methodist Church in rural Mississippi teach us about the American Dilemma over race? Quite a lot, it turns out. Founded by Reconstruction Methodists in 1879, Mt. Zion would later endure decades of harsh control by the white supremacist state. Segregated by Jim Crow laws and attitudes, Mt. Zion was also separated from its parent religious body, the Methodist denomination, between 1939 and 1968, as white Methodists created the segregated Central Jurisdiction for its black members: the move appeared as church-mandated Jim Crow. Mt. Zion survived the attacks by the state, and the benign neglect of the Methodists, maintaining its belief in an inclusive society by hosting the civil rights workers of Freedom Summer, who planned a school for black voters at the church. The church was drawn into the Klan conspiracy that included the murder of the three civil rights workers, the burning of Mt. Zion, and the beating of some of its members. Instead of grieving, the members of Mt. Zion began an annual ceremony that commemorated the death of the three and their mission to advance black rights, especially voting. The commemorative service is now an integral part of state and local efforts to create something new in this very red state, an alternate Mississippi that is inclusive, modern, and open.
Jacob Rama Berman
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814789506
- eISBN:
- 9780814789513
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814789506.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter explores the representation of Arabs, Islam, and Arabo-Islamic culture in early twentieth-century black uplift discourses. These representations are hardly consistent and often speak ...
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This chapter explores the representation of Arabs, Islam, and Arabo-Islamic culture in early twentieth-century black uplift discourses. These representations are hardly consistent and often speak directly to differences in theories on self-representation, as well as to the aesthetic divides that these differences engender. The most prominent figure of black engagement with Arab and Islamic culture is the Moor. Indeed, the figure of the Moor was mobilized for both spiritual and secular discourses on black identity. Tracking its uses in the first decades of the twentieth century reveals how intraethnic class and religious reconciliation were often sacrificed in black uplift discourses to intraethnic racial reconciliation. The chapter also discusses the term barbaresque, which describes black intellectuals' aesthetic engagement with North Africa, as well as with the narratives of African American empowerment these engagements produced.Less
This chapter explores the representation of Arabs, Islam, and Arabo-Islamic culture in early twentieth-century black uplift discourses. These representations are hardly consistent and often speak directly to differences in theories on self-representation, as well as to the aesthetic divides that these differences engender. The most prominent figure of black engagement with Arab and Islamic culture is the Moor. Indeed, the figure of the Moor was mobilized for both spiritual and secular discourses on black identity. Tracking its uses in the first decades of the twentieth century reveals how intraethnic class and religious reconciliation were often sacrificed in black uplift discourses to intraethnic racial reconciliation. The chapter also discusses the term barbaresque, which describes black intellectuals' aesthetic engagement with North Africa, as well as with the narratives of African American empowerment these engagements produced.
Carol V. R. George
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- October 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190231088
- eISBN:
- 9780190231118
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190231088.003.0017
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
By the fortieth anniversary of the civil rights murders, Mt. Zion Church was supported by new organizations that supported its witness. In June 2004, a triracial community group, the Philadelphia ...
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By the fortieth anniversary of the civil rights murders, Mt. Zion Church was supported by new organizations that supported its witness. In June 2004, a triracial community group, the Philadelphia Coalition, organized the commemoration service and called for a new trial for the murderers. The work of the coalition was facilitated by the Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, housed on the campus of the University of Mississippi and loosely modeled on South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Dick Molpus, a senior institute member, told the large community gathering at the commemoration that “we are not each other’s enemies,” and that the new needs were jobs, housing, schools, and health care. Mt. Zion’s witness for forty years had consistently connected the murders with the goals of the activists, and now, prompted by the advocacy of Andrew Goodman’s mother, Carolyn, the leader of the conspiracy, Edgar Ray Killen, was brought to trial.Less
By the fortieth anniversary of the civil rights murders, Mt. Zion Church was supported by new organizations that supported its witness. In June 2004, a triracial community group, the Philadelphia Coalition, organized the commemoration service and called for a new trial for the murderers. The work of the coalition was facilitated by the Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, housed on the campus of the University of Mississippi and loosely modeled on South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Dick Molpus, a senior institute member, told the large community gathering at the commemoration that “we are not each other’s enemies,” and that the new needs were jobs, housing, schools, and health care. Mt. Zion’s witness for forty years had consistently connected the murders with the goals of the activists, and now, prompted by the advocacy of Andrew Goodman’s mother, Carolyn, the leader of the conspiracy, Edgar Ray Killen, was brought to trial.
Jennie Chapman
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617039034
- eISBN:
- 9781621039891
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617039034.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
This chapter focuses on the place of evangelicals in the contemporary social world, through an examination of their representation in Left Behind. It finds that although the evangelical characters ...
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This chapter focuses on the place of evangelicals in the contemporary social world, through an examination of their representation in Left Behind. It finds that although the evangelical characters have a clear missionary imperative in the early novels of the series, this quickly gives way to evangelical isolationism as they develop into a separatist faith community which is increasingly hostile to those beyond its ‘inner circle’. The chapter also engages with the series’ attitudes towards race, multiculturalism and, specifically, Islam, through an examination of its depiction of Muslims and non-white converts to evangelicalism. It finds that the series’ messages about multiculturalism and what is often described as ‘racial reconciliation’ among evangelicals are surprisingly ambiguous and at times even progressive.Less
This chapter focuses on the place of evangelicals in the contemporary social world, through an examination of their representation in Left Behind. It finds that although the evangelical characters have a clear missionary imperative in the early novels of the series, this quickly gives way to evangelical isolationism as they develop into a separatist faith community which is increasingly hostile to those beyond its ‘inner circle’. The chapter also engages with the series’ attitudes towards race, multiculturalism and, specifically, Islam, through an examination of its depiction of Muslims and non-white converts to evangelicalism. It finds that the series’ messages about multiculturalism and what is often described as ‘racial reconciliation’ among evangelicals are surprisingly ambiguous and at times even progressive.
J. Russell Hawkins and Phillip Luke Sinitiere
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199329502
- eISBN:
- 9780199369362
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199329502.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This introduction briefly outlines the contemporary evangelical concern with racial diversity and justice and attributes part of this newfound interest to Michael Emerson and Christian Smith’s book, ...
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This introduction briefly outlines the contemporary evangelical concern with racial diversity and justice and attributes part of this newfound interest to Michael Emerson and Christian Smith’s book, Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America (Oxford, 2000). After broadly sketching out Emerson and Smith’s arguments in Divided by Faith, the introduction concludes with an overview of the chapters in the book and provides a summary of each.Less
This introduction briefly outlines the contemporary evangelical concern with racial diversity and justice and attributes part of this newfound interest to Michael Emerson and Christian Smith’s book, Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America (Oxford, 2000). After broadly sketching out Emerson and Smith’s arguments in Divided by Faith, the introduction concludes with an overview of the chapters in the book and provides a summary of each.
