Do Black Lives Matter in Post-Brexit Britain?: $hAnthony G. Reddie
This article speaks to existential challenges facing Black people, predominantly of Caribbean descent, to live in what continues to be a White dominated and White entitled society. Working against the backdrop of the 'Black Lives Matter' movement that originated in the United States, this...
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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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Sage
[2019]
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Studies in Christian ethics
Anno: 2019, Volume: 32, Fascicolo: 3, Pagine: 387-401 |
| Notazioni IxTheo: | CG Cristianesimo e politica FD Teologia contestuale KBF Isole Britanniche RJ Missione TK Età contemporanea |
| Altre parole chiave: | B
Mission Christianity
B Black Lives Matter B Colonialism B Windrush Generation B Whiteness |
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| Riepilogo: | This article speaks to existential challenges facing Black people, predominantly of Caribbean descent, to live in what continues to be a White dominated and White entitled society. Working against the backdrop of the 'Black Lives Matter' movement that originated in the United States, this article analyses the socio-political and cultural frameworks that affirm Whiteness whilst concomitantly, denigrating Blackness. The author, a well-known Black liberation theologian, who is a child of the Windrush Generation, argues that Western Mission Christianity has always exemplified a deep-seated form of anti-Blackness that has helped to shape the agency of Black bodies, essentially marking them as 'less than'. This theological base has created the frameworks that have dictated the sematic belief that Black bodies do not really matter and if they do, then they are invariably second-class ones when compared to White bodies. In the final part of the article, the author outlines the ways in which Black theology in Britain, drawing on postcolonial theological and biblical optics, has sought to critique the ethnocentrism of White Christianity in Britain in order to assert that 'Black Lives Do Matter'. |
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| ISSN: | 0953-9468 |
| Comprende: | Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0953946819843468 |