{"id":13924,"date":"2011-05-25T18:56:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T18:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=13924"},"modified":"2015-01-08T11:21:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T11:21:44","slug":"bantum-talks-race-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=13924","title":{"rendered":"Bantum talks race, religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefalcononline.com\/records\/article.php?id=7715\" target=\"_blank\">Bantum talks race, religion<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/falcononline.spu.edu\" target=\"_blank\">The Falcon<\/a><br \/>\nSeattle Pacific University<br \/>\nVolume 82, Issue 25 (2011-05-18)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nicole Critchley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>New book looks to redeem \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulatto<\/a>\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mulattos defy classification, said Assistant Professor of Theology <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spu.edu\/academics\/school-of-theology\/seattle-pacific-seminary\/seminary-faculty\/bantum-brian\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Bantum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Part black and part white, they do not fit neatly into any preconceived notions of our society\u2014and that, in part, is what makes them so fascinating, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a structure of belief in whiteness, this idea of what it should be. It is a very clean system,\u201d Bantum said. \u201cMulattos mixed things up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At Thursday\u2019s Food for Thought in the Library Reading Room, Bantum read from his book \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=11537\" target=\"_blank\">Redeeming Mulatto: A Theology of Race and Christian Hybridity<\/a>.\u201d Bantum said the inspiration for this book came from his doctoral dissertation and is highly personal.<\/p>\n<p>Bantum\u2019s book discusses theology in a mixed-race world and explores the intersection between identity and theology, he said. He said he began searching for the answer to race through church and religion, because he wanted to know what it meant to be mulatto and Christian&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;But now a third identity, mulatto\u2014neither black nor white\u2014is very strong, he said, and he believes it is directly tied to the Christian concept of a savior who is both divine and human. <strong>Bantum said the mixed identity of mulattos is similar to that of Jesus, who is both God and man<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefalcononline.com\/records\/article.php?id=7715\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bantum talks race, religion The Falcon Seattle Pacific University Volume 82, Issue 25 (2011-05-18) Nicole Critchley New book looks to redeem \u2018mulatto\u2019 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\u2014and that, in part, is what makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,820,20],"tags":[5213,7149,7148,6403,6404],"class_list":["post-13924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","tag-brian-bantum","tag-brian-k-bantum","tag-brian-keith-bantum","tag-nicole-critchley","tag-the-falcon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}