Silencing White Noise: Six Practices to Overcome Our Inaction on Race - Couverture souple

Francois

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1587435519 ISBN 13 : 9781587435515

Editeur : Brazos Press, 2022

Synopsis

Racism is omnipresent in American life, both public and private. We are immersed in what prominent Black church leader Willie Dwayne Francois III calls white noise--the racist speech, ideas, and policies that lull us into inaction on racial justice. White noise masks racial realities and prevents constructive responses to microaggressions, structural inequality, and overt interpersonal racism.

In this book, Francois calls people of all races to take up practices that overcome silence and inaction on race and that advance racial repair. Drawing from his antiracism curriculum, the Public Love Organizing and Training (PLOT) Project, Francois encourages us to move from a 'colorblind' stance and mythic innocence to one that takes an honest account of our national history and acknowledges our complicity in racism as a prelude to antiracist interventions.

Weaving together personal narrative, theology, and history, this book invites us to engage 6 'rhythms of reparative intercession.' These are six practices of antiracism that aim to repair harm by speaking up and 'acting up' on behalf of others. Silencing White Noise offers concrete ways to help people wrest free from the dangers of racism and to develop lifelong Christian antiracist practices.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Willie Dwayne Francois III (DMin, Candler School of Theology) is senior pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church in Pleasantville, New Jersey, and president of the Black Church Center for Justice and Equality. He serves as assistant professor of liberation theology at New York Theological Seminary and directs a master's degree program at Sing Correctional Facility. He created the Public Love Organizing and Training (PLOT) Project and has served in various organizations engaging racial justice issues, including the Atlantic City chapter of Black Lives Matter, the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, and the NJ Department of State's MLK Jr. Commission. Francois is an active speaker and has written for HuffPost, Sojourners, The Hill, the Christian Century, and Religion Dispatches.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brazos Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1587435519
• ISBN 13: 9781587435515
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible