Contesting Post-Racialism

Conflicted Churches in the United States and South Africa
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4968-1830-0
Verlag: University Press of Mississippi

Buch, Englisch, 257 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 396 g

After the 2008 election and 2012 reelection of Barack Obama as US president and the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as the first of several blacks to serve as South Africa's president, many within the two countries have declared race to be irrelevant. For contributors to this volume, the presumed demise of race may be premature. Given continued racial disparities in income, education, and employment, as well as in perceptions of problems and promise within the two countries, much healing remains unfinished. Nevertheless, despite persistently pronounced disparities between black and white realities, it has become more difficult to articulate racial issues. Some deem ""race"" an increasingly unnecessary identity in these more self-consciously ""post-racial"" times.

The volume engages post-racial ideas in both their limitations and promise. Contributors look specifically at the extent to which a church's contemporary response to race consciousness and post-racial consciousness enables it to give an accurate public account of race.

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Über Autor(innen)

R. Drew Smith, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is professor of urban ministry at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and research fellow at University of South Africa. His books include From Every Mountainside: Black Churches and the Broad Terrain of Civil Rights.

William Ackah, London, United Kingdom, is lecturer in the Department of Geography and programme director for community development and development and globalisation at Birkbeck University of London. He is also co-convener of the Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race.

Anthony G. Reddie, Birmingham, United Kingdom, is tutor in Christian theology and coordinator of community learning at Bristol Baptist College. He is editor of Black Theology: An International Journal.

Rothney S. Tshaka, Pretoria, South Africa, is professor of systematic theology and theological ethics and acting director for the School of Humanities at the University of South Africa. He is also co-convener of the Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race.