Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Brian K. Bantum
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[Brian] Bantum explains his understanding of race as “the structure of death, the dehumanizing and de-creating word a people sought to speak over the world, and violently succeeded. Race is what overshadows the world, conceiving our bodies and their differences as something to be perpetually overcome.” He later writes, “My body is not a race.”…
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“A Future Unwritten”: Blackness between the Religious Invocations of Heidi Durrow and Zadie Smith South Atlantic Quarterly Volume 112, Number 4 (2013) pages 657-674 DOI: 10.1215/00382876-2345225 Brian Bantum, Assistant Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University Race and religion were two aspects of the Western colonial project. Novelists Heidi Durrow and Zadie Smith reflect two related…
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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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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…