White Theology: Outing Supremacy in Modernity (Black Religion Womanist Thought Social Justice)

White Theology re-examines white race privilege throughout history and its relationship to black theology. James W. Perkinson articulates a white theology of responsibility responding to the claims of James Cone (and other black scholars) that serious engagement with history and culture must be at the heart of any American projection of integrity or "salvation" in the modern period. Perkinson interweaves autobiography and postcolonial analysis, history, and phenomenology to explore white supremacy and the future of religious studies. This is an essential and groundbreaking book for courses in religious studies, African American studies, and theology. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 8 Series Editors’ Preface......Page 12 Introduction......Page 14 I: White Privilege and Black Power......Page 20 1 White Boy in the Ghetto......Page 22 2 The Crisis of Race in the New Millennium......Page 34 II: History, Consciousness, and Performance......Page 62 3 Modern White Supremacy and Western Christian Soteriology......Page 64 4 Black Double-Consciousness and White Double Takes......Page 100 5 Black Performance......Page 128 III: Presumption, Initiation, and Practice......Page 162 6 White Posture......Page 164 7 White Passage and Black Pedagogy......Page 198 8 Anti-Supremacist Solidarity and Post-White Practice......Page 230 Epilogue......Page 262 Notes......Page 264 Bibliography......Page 274 B......Page 284 D......Page 285 J......Page 286 R......Page 287 W......Page 288 Annotation White Theologyre-examines white race privilege throughout history and its relationship to black theology. James W. Perkinson articulates a white theology of responsibility responding to the claims of James Cone (and other black scholars) that serious engagement with history and culture must be at the heart of any American projection of integrity or "salvation" in the modern period. Perkinson interweaves autobiography and postcolonial analysis, history, and phenomenology to explore white supremacy and the future of religious studies. This is an essential and groundbreaking book for courses in religious studies, African American studies, and theology In late April of 1992, when Los Angeles erupted in the wake of the Simi Valley verdict of "innocent" for the white police officers who had been video-taped beating Rodney King in March of 1991, I was beginning the process of writing the dissertation that this book is based upon. By James W. Perkinson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [261]-269) And Index.