Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Tag: Brian Bantum
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Is There a “New Black Theology?” Yes and No. brianbantum: theology, culture, teaching and life in-between 2012-11-28 Brian Bantum, Assistant Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University Last week I had the distinct privilege of sitting on a panel with Willie James Jennings, J. Kameron Carter, and Edward Philip Antonio with Joanne Terrell responding. The panel…
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In “Redeeming Mulatto,” Bantum reconciles the particular with the transcendent to account for the world as it is: mixed. He constructs a remarkable new Christological vision of Christ as tragic mulatto—one who confronts the contrived delusions of racial purity and the violence of self-assertion and emerges from a “hybridity” of flesh and spirit, human and…
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The church exists in the wake of this racial world, and for this reason mixed bodies still trouble the waters. Mulattos were bodies that troubled the waters for all of us because they existed on both sides in a space that could not sustain such a possibility. That we no longer characterize mixed-race children as…
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Brian Bantum Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (Founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode 254: Brian Bantum When: Wednesday, 2012-05-02, 21:00Z (17:00 EDT, 14:00 PDT) Brian Bantum, Associate Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific…
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Books: Black and white thinking The Christian Century 2012-01-26 Edward P. Antonio, Associate Professor of Theology and Social Theory Iliff School of Theology, Denver, Colorado Brian Bantum. Redeeming Mulatto: A Theology of Race and Christian Hybridity. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2010. 260 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9781602582934. Redeeming Mulatto presents a complex argument about theology and…
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The new black theology: Retrieving ancient sources to challenge racism The Christian Century 2012-01-26 Jonathan Tran, Assistant Professor of Religion Baylor University, Waco, Texas Read Edward Antonio’s review of Brian Bantum’s Redeeming Mulatto (subscription required) A couple years ago, when the Century asked some leading theologians to name five “essential theology books of the past…
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Mulatto Theology: Race, Discipleship, and Interracial Existence Duke University 2009 290 pages Brian Keith Bantum, Assistant Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Religion in the Graduate School of Duke University To exist racially “in-between,” being neither…
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Bantum talks race, religion The Falcon Seattle Pacific University Volume 82, Issue 25 (2011-05-18) Nicole Critchley New book looks to redeem ‘mulatto’ Mulattos defy classification, said Assistant Professor of Theology Brian Bantum. Part black and part white, they do not fit neatly into any preconceived notions of our society—and that, in part, is what makes…