{"id":20169,"date":"2012-01-26T23:14:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T23:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20169"},"modified":"2013-08-25T00:17:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T00:17:20","slug":"20169","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20169","title":{"rendered":"Books: Black and white thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/christiancentury.org\/reviews\/2012-01\/black-and-white-thinking\" target=\"_blank\">Books: Black and white thinking<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christiancentury.org\" target=\"_blank\">The Christian Century<\/a><br \/>\n2012-01-26<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iliff.edu\/index\/learn\/your-faculty\/edward-phillip-antonio\/\" target=\"_blank\">Edward P. Antonio<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Theology and Social Theory<br \/>\n<em>Iliff School of Theology, Denver, Colorado<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Brian Bantum. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=11537\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Redeeming Mulatto: A Theology of Race and Christian Hybridity<\/em><\/a>. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2010.\u00a0260 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9781602582934.<\/p>\n<p><em>Redeeming Mulatto<\/em> presents a complex argument about theology and race. It is impossible to do it justice in a short review. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spu.edu\/academics\/school-of-theology\/seattle-pacific-seminary\/seminary-faculty\/bantum-brian\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Bantum<\/a> persuasively challenges traditional ways of thinking about race in the United States by theologically retrieving interracial identity as an important category that has been unduly neglected. In this way he addresses the American tendency to understand race relations in terms of the binary opposition between black and white.<\/p>\n<p>Bantum describes the historical experience of being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulatto\/a<\/a> by suggesting that race in the U.S. functions like religion or as a form of discipleship into which we are all recruited&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/christiancentury.org\/reviews\/2012-01\/black-and-white-thinking\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0260 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9781602582934. Redeeming Mulatto presents a complex argument about theology and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,8,820,20],"tags":[5213,7149,7148,9390,9389,9386],"class_list":["post-20169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","tag-brian-bantum","tag-brian-k-bantum","tag-brian-keith-bantum","tag-edward-antonio","tag-edward-p-antonio","tag-the-christian-century"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20169","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=20169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}