Anti-Blackness and Christian Ethics

by Vincent W. Lloyd, Andrew Prevot

Overview

Anti-black racism is a central ethical crisis of our time. 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 reimagined in light of the challenges to white supremacy posed by today’s movements for racial justice? With contributions by leading experts such as Katie Grimes, Steven Battin, Santiago Slabodsky, M. Shawn Copeland, Kelly Brown Douglas, Elias Ortega-Aponte, Ashon Crawley, Eboni Marshall Turman, and Bryan Massingale, this collection speaks to scholars, students, activists, and Christians of all races who believe that black lives matter.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608337163
Publisher:	Orbis
Publication date:	11/16/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	429 KB

About the Author

Vincent W. Lloyd is associate professor of theology and religious studies at Villanova University. His most recent book is Black Natural Law. Andrew Prevot is assistant professor of theology at Boston College. He is author of Thinking Prayer: Theology and Spirituality amid the Crises of Modernity.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Contributors ix

Preface xiii

Introduction Vincent W. Lloyd Andrew Prevot xv

Part I Theorizing Anti-Blackness

1 More Than Skin Deep: The Violence of Anti-Blackness Kelly Brown Douglas 3

2 It's the Theology, Stupid! Coloniality Anti-Blackness, and the Bounds of "Humanity" Santiago Slabodsky 19

3 Black Exceptionalism: Anti-Blackness Supremacy in the Afterlife of Slavery Katie Walker Grimes 41

4 White Supremacy and Anti-Black Logics in the Making of U.S. Catholicism M. Shawn Copeland 61

Part II Black Bodies and Selves

5 Sources of a Black Self? Ethics of Authenticity in an Era of Anti-Blackness Andrew Prevot 77

6 Blackness and Anethical Performance Ashon Crawley 96

7 The Haunting of Lynching Spectacles: An Ethics of Response Elias Ortega-Aponte 111

Part III Black Loves

8 Eldridge Cleaver, George Jackson, and the Ethics of Love Vincent W. Lloyd 131

9 Facing Pecola: Anti-Black Sexism and a Womanist Soteriologic of Black Girl Disrespectability Eboni Marshall Turman 150

10 The Erotic Life of Anti-Blackness: Police Sexual Violation of Black Bodies Bryan N. Massingale 173

Selected Bibliography 195

Index 199