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I bring the voices of my people, a womanist vision for racial reconciliation, Chanequa Walker-Barnes ; foreword by Lisa Sharon Harper

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I bring the voices of my people

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Chanequa Walker-Barnes ; foreword by Lisa Sharon Harper

Prophetic Christianity

a womanist vision for racial reconciliation

Disrupting the racist and sexist biases in conversations on reconciliationChanequa Walker-Barnes offers a compelling argument that the Christian racial reconciliation movement is incapable of responding to modern-day racism. She demonstrates how reconciliation's roots in the evangelical, male-centered Promise Keepers' movement has resulted in a patriarchal and largely symbolic effort, focused upon improving relationships between men from various racial-ethnic groups. Walker-Barnes argues that highlighting the voices of women of color is critical to developing any genuine efforts toward reconciliation. Drawing upon intersectionality theory and critical race studies, she demonstrates how living at the intersection of racism and sexism exposes women of color to unique experiences of gendered racism that are not about relationships, but rather are about systems of power and inequity. Refuting the idea that race and racism are "one-size-fits-all, "I Bring the Voices of My Peoplehighlights the particular work that White Americans must do to repent of racism and to work toward racial justice and offers a constructive view of reconciliation that prioritizes eliminating racial injustice and healing the damage that it has done to African Americans and other people of color

Racism is not about feelings or friendship -- Racism is not a stand-alone issue -- The unbearable whiteness of being -- Reconciliation begins with a curse -- Our spiritual strivings