{"id":45379,"date":"2016-01-26T02:02:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T02:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45379"},"modified":"2016-01-26T02:02:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T02:02:59","slug":"what-is-the-defining-divide-false-post-racial-dogmas-and-the-biblical-affirmation-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45379","title":{"rendered":"What is the Defining Divide? False Post-Racial Dogmas and the Biblical Affirmation of \u201cRace\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1179\/1476994815Z.00000000054\" target=\"_blank\">What is the Defining Divide? False Post-Racial Dogmas and the Biblical Affirmation of \u201cRace\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maneyonline.com\/loi\/blt\" target=\"_blank\">Black Theology<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maneyonline.com\/toc\/blt\/13\/2\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 13, Issue 2<\/a> (August, 2015)<br \/>\npages 166-188<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1179\/1476994815Z.00000000054\" target=\"_blank\">10.1179\/1476994815Z.00000000054<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonbaptist.org.uk\/contact-us\/regional-ministry-team\/rev-kumar-rajagopalan\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kumar Rajagopalan<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>London Baptist Association, London, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This essay offers a critical reflection on the challenges of addressing the concept of \u201crace,\u201d and whether there is a post-racial era in which we are presently living. The essay demonstrates the interconnected nature of \u201crace,\u201d as forming the destructive underpinning for the oppressive frameworks that have given rise to slavery, colonialism, caste discrimination, and economic exploitation. The essay proposes an interdisciplinary, practical theological approach to uncovering the often concealed ways in which racism and White privilege function in many Western democratic societies and within the Church.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maneyonline.com\/doi\/pdfplus\/10.1179\/1476994815Z.00000000054\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the Defining Divide? False Post-Racial Dogmas and the Biblical Affirmation of \u201cRace\u201d Black Theology Volume 13, Issue 2 (August, 2015) pages 166-188 DOI: 10.1179\/1476994815Z.00000000054 Kumar Rajagopalan London Baptist Association, London, United Kingdom This essay offers a critical reflection on the challenges of addressing the concept of \u201crace,\u201d and whether there is a post-racial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,820],"tags":[22796,22795],"class_list":["post-45379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-religion","tag-black-theology","tag-kumar-rajagopalan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45379","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=45379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45380,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45379\/revisions\/45380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}