The Religion of White Rage: White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress

ISBN-13: 9781474473705 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 360 str.

Stephen C. Finley;Biko Mandela Gray;Lori Latrice Martin

Opis

Critically analyses the historical, cultural and political dimensions of white religious rage in America, past and present Argues that religion and race - not economics - are the primary motivating factors for the rise of white rage and white supremacist sentiment in the USA Makes key interventions in labour studies and American religious studies Examines the mythological and sociological construct of the 'white labourer' Uncovers the sociological and religious origins of white anxiety Uses the perspectives of theory and method in religious studies, affect studies and critical whiteness studies Shows that white rage is a phenomenon that moves in and through the institutional legitimation of certain forms of white expression and engagement, both 'liberal' and 'conservative' This book sheds light on the phenomenon of white rage, and maps out the uneasy relationship between white anxiety, religious fervour, American identity and perceived black racial progress. Contributors to the volume examine the sociological construct of the 'white labourer', whose concerns and beliefs can be understood as religious in foundation. They uncover that white religious fervor correlates to notions of perceived white loss and perceived black progress. In discussions ranging from the Constitution to the Charlottesville riots and the evangelical Christian community's uncritical support for Trump, this collection argues that it is not economics but religion and race that stand as the primary motivating factors for the rise of white rage and white supremacist sentiment in the United States.

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Acknowledgments; Introduction: “The Souls of White Folk”: Race, Affect, and Religion in the Religion of White Rage, Biko Mandela Gray, Stephen C. Finley, Lori Latrice Martin; Part One: White Religious Fervor and Contemporary American Politics; 1. “Make America Great Again”: Racial Pathology, White Consolidation, and Melancholia in Trump’s America, Stephen C. Finley; 2. You Will Not Replace Us! An Exploration of Religio-Racial Identity in White Nationalism, Darrius Hills; 3. “I AM that I AM”: The Religion of White Rage, Great Migration Detroit, and the Ford Motor Company, Terri Laws and Kimberly Enard; 4. American (Un)Civil Religion, the Defense of the White Worker, and Responses to NFL Protests, Lori Latrice Martin; 5. The Color of Belief: Black Social Christianity, White Evangelicalism, and Redbaiting the Religious Culture of the CIO in the Postwar South, Elizabeth Fones-Wolf and Ken Fones-Wolf; 6. Constitutional Whiteness: Class, Narcissism, and the Source of White Rage, Jason Jeffries; Part II: White Religious Fervor, Religious Ideology, and White Identity: 7. KKK Christology: A Brief on White Class Insecurity, Paul Easterling; 8. Black People and White Mormon Rage: Examining Race, Religion, and Politics in Zion, Darron Smith, Brenda G. Harris, and Melissa Flores; 9. Anatomizing White Rage: “Race is My Religion!” and “White Genocide”, Kate Temoney; 10. Exorcising Blackness: Calling the Cops as an Affective Performance of Gender, Biko Mandela Gray; 11. White Power Barbie and Other Figures of the Angry White Woman, Danae Faulk; 12. Weaponizing Religion: A Document Analysis of the Religious Indoctrination of Slaves in Service of White Labor Elites, E. Anthony Muhammad; 13. The Religions of Black Resistance and White Rage: Interpenetrative Religious Practice in the 1963 Civil Rights Struggle in Danville, Virginia, Tobin Miller Shearer; Conclusion: Race, Religion, and Labor Studies: The Way Forward, Lori Latrice Martin, Stephen C. Finley, Biko Mandela Gray; About the Editors and Contributors; Notes; Bibliography; Index.