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_bG75 2017
100 1 _aGrimes, Katie Walker,
_eauthor.
245 0 0 _aChrist divided :
_bantiblackness as corporate vice /
_cKatie Walker Grimes.
300 _axxxv, 301 pages ;
_c23 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [265]-298) and index.
505 0 _aDefining white supremacy and antiblackness supremacy. Antiblackness and world history -- The nearly global afterlife of black slavery -- The spatial afterlife of slavery in the contemporary United States -- Diagnosing the corporate habits of antiblackness supremacy. Inverting virtue -- The Catholic corporate habits of antiblackness in the era of chattel slavery -- Racial segregation as a corporate habit of antiblackness supremacy in the body of Christ -- Nonwhiteness will not save us: the persistence of antiblackness in the "brown" twenty-first century -- Toward a theory of corporate virtue and vice -- Antiblackness supremacy and the sacraments of initiation. Baptism and the Eucharist as habits of antiblackness supremacy -- Corporate vices, ecclesial consequences: poking holes in the ecclesiology of "battened-down hatches" -- Re-habituating the corporate body of Christ. Real food for real bodies: from scaramental optimism to sacramental realism -- Dismantling antiblackness supremacy.
520 _aBringing the wisdom of generations of black Catholics into conversation with contemporary scholarly accounts of racism, Christ Divided diagnoses antiblackness supremacy as a corporate vice that inhabits the body of Christ. To truly understand racial inequality, theologians must acknowledge the existence of antiblackness supremacy and recognize its uniquely foundational role in prevailing processes of racialization and racial hierarchy. In addition to introducing a new framework of racial analysis, this book proposes a new approach to virtue ethics. The theory of corporate virtue outlined here provides a freamework throughwhich to evaluate the habits of antiblackness supremacy and propse new ones--the be made to 'do the right thing.'" -- Publisher, page four of cover.
650 0 _aDiscrimination
_xReligious aspects
_xCatholic Church.
650 0 _aRacism
_xReligious aspects.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xSocial conditions.
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