RT Article
T1 Black Lives Matter and Catholic Whiteness: A Tale of Two Performances
JF Horizons
VO 44
IS 2
SP 306
OP 341
A1 Jaycox, Michael P.
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1663032440
AB The Black Lives Matter movement has received little scholarly attention from Catholic theologians and ethicists, despite the fact that it is the most conspicuous and publicly influential racial justice movement to be found in the US context in decades. The author argues on the basis of recent field research that this movement is most adequately understood from a theological ethics standpoint through a performativity lens, as a form of quasi-liturgical participation that constructs collective identity and sustains collective agency. The author draws upon ethnographic methods in order to demonstrate that the public moral critique of the movement is embedded in four interlocking narratives, and to interrogate the Catholic theological discipline itself as an object of this moral critique in light of its own performative habituation to whiteness.
K1 Black Lives Matter
K1 Ethnography
K1 Narrative
K1 Natural Law
K1 Performativity
K1 racial justice
K1 Racism
K1 Virtue
K1 White Supremacy
K1 Whiteness
DO 10.1017/hor.2017.121