Dear White Christians : For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation

Jennifer Harvey

ISBN 10: 0802877915 / ISBN 13: 9780802877918

Published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Jul 2020, 2020

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Neuware - 'The second edition of a book on American racial justice issues from a Christian perspective, advocating a reparations paradigm rather than an approach based on reconciliation'.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dear White Christians : For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Jul 2020
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802877915
• ISBN 13: 9780802877918
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 228W x 149H x 22D millimeters 228 millimeters width by 149 millimeters height by 22 millimeters depth
• Weight: 458 grams

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Synopsis

“If reconciliation is the takeaway point for the civil rights story we usually tell, then the takeaway point for the more complex, more truthful civil rights story contained in Dear White Christians is reparations.” — from the preface to the second edition With the troubling and painful events of the last several years—from the killing of numerous unarmed Black men and women at the hands of police to the rallying of white supremacists in Charlottesville—it is clearer than ever that the reconciliation paradigm, long favored by white Christians, has failed to heal the deep racial wounds in the church and American society. In this provocative book, originally published in 2014, Jennifer Harvey argues for a radical shift away from the well-meaning but feeble longing for reconciliation toward a robustly biblical call for reparations. Now in its second edition—with a new preface addressing the explosive changes in American culture and politics since 2014, as well as an appendix that explores what a reparations paradigm can actually look like—Dear White Christians calls justice-committed Christians to do the gospel-inspired work of opposing racist social structures around them. Harvey’s message is historically and scripturally rooted, making it ideal for facilitating the difficult but important discussions about race that are so desperately needed in churches and faith-centered classrooms across the country. Table of Contents Foreword by Traci D. Blackmon Preface Introduction Part One: Reconciliation? Where We Are and Why 1. A Reconciliation Paradigm 2. There Is No Racial Parallel 3. Reconciliation Is Not the Answer Part Two: Reparations! Going Backward before Going Forward 4. The Black Manifesto 5. The Particular Problem of Whiteness 6. A Reparations Paradigm Part Three: Stirrings of Hope, Pathways of Transformation 7. “We Are Called to Remember Our Entire History” 8. Becoming “Repairers of the Breach” Conclusion Appendix: Now What?

About the Author

Jennifer Harvey is professor of religion at DrakeUniversity, Des Moines, Iowa. Her other books includeWhiteness and Morality: Pursuing Racial Justicethrough Reparations and Sovereignty andDisrupting White Supremacy from Within.