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