The Uneasy Conscience of a White Christian
eBook - ePub

The Uneasy Conscience of a White Christian

Making Racial Equity a Priority

  1. 196 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Uneasy Conscience of a White Christian

Making Racial Equity a Priority

About this book

Do White people bear moral responsibility for racial disparities? Are White Christians under a spiritual mandate to make racial equity a priority?Clifford Williams taught philosophy at Christian colleges for many years, including a course on race. He has journeyed alongside students as they gained insights about racism. In this book, he draws from deeply personal stories as he shows the need for White Christians to recognize the impact of racism and to cultivate key character traits which enable them to pursue racial equity.In succinct and thoughtful prose, interwoven with first-person accounts of racialized experiences by people of color, Williams describes the importance of the Golden Rule, the power and effects of racial socialization, and the harm racism does to those who harbor it. He asks the haunting question, "Why do White people react so strongly to Black power?" He explains why widespread church integration in the United States may never exist. He unpacks the concept of White identity and links police brutality to faulty moral perception.This book gently explains what White Christians need to do to make racial equity a priority.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction
  4. A Note on the Stories
  5. Chapter 1: The Uneasy Conscience of a White Christian
  6. Joi: Code-Switching
  7. Chapter 2: The Power and Effects of Racial Socialization
  8. Chapter 3: The Harm of Whiteness to Oneself
  9. Beth: Forming an Identity
  10. Chapter 4: Moral Imagination
  11. Jonathan: Police Encounters
  12. Chapter 5: Black and Wild, Like a Bear
  13. Chapter 6: Black Power, White Power
  14. Devlin: Systems
  15. Chapter 7: Inhabiting Every Nook and Cranny of American Life
  16. Chapter 8: Is Abortion Worse than Racism?
  17. Israel: Racial Undertones
  18. Chapter 9: “But I Didn’t Mean to Hurt You”
  19. Ana: Being Latina in the United States
  20. Chapter 10: Is Racial Equity a Conservative or a Liberal Concern?
  21. Lisa: Belonging
  22. Chapter 11: The Resistance of Southern Whites to the 1961 Freedom Rides
  23. Chapter 12: How Slavery Affects Us Now
  24. Jonathan: Church Encounters
  25. Chapter 13: Why Church Integration May Never Happen
  26. Devlin: Breaking Down Walls
  27. Chapter 14: What We Whites Must Do
  28. Bibliography