While We Run This Place: Confronting the Power of Racism in a Southern Church

Nibs Stroupe, Inez Fleming (Authors); Vincent Harding (Foreword)

ISBN 10: 1570750009 / ISBN 13: 9781570750007

Published by Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY, 1995

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174 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Occassional pen markings on text.

Seller Inventory # 3iiAc0033

Bibliographic Details

• Title: While We Run This Place: Confronting the Power of Racism in a Southern Church
• Publisher: Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1570750009
• ISBN 13: 9781570750007
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Illustrator: Nancy Anne Dawe (Photos)
• Edition: Copyright © 1995
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In this challenging, ultimately hopeful book, Nibs Stroupe, the white pastor of multi-cultural Oakhurst Presbyterian Church in Decatur, Georgia, grapples with this question: why, so long after the Civil Rights movement has become part of American history, does racism still pervade society?
Race, writes Stroupe, represents a social and political chasm that continues to divide and entrap all Americans. He steadfastly maintains that acknowledging the power of the system of race throughout society - in our schools, courts, prisons, and housing - is the necessary first step to dismantling it. Stroupe convinces us that although racism is powerful, it is not inexorable. It can be overcome.
Adding her voice is Inez Fleming, a black elder at Oakhurst, who tells the story of tears and laughter within the congregation as blacks and whites struggle together, creating an extraordinary church family.