Damned whiteness how white Christian allies failed the Black freedom movement / David F. Evans.
| Author/creator | Evans, David F. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2025] |
| Description | 292 pages 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from JSTOR University of North Carolina Press Publisher Collection (Backlist) |
| Subjects |
| Physical medium | illustrations |
| Contents | A White Progressive Christian Problem -- Fractures in Fellowship -- Parallel Politics -- Diversity -- Charity -- Relationships -- Reconciliation -- The White Problem -- Black Power -- The End of Allyship? |
| Abstract | "The memory of the long civil rights movement often celebrates white men and women who drew on their religious faith to support Black demands for racial justice. However, the visions and actions of these leaders and their organizations often conflicted with those of Black leadership. While Black activists fought for a broad vision of freedom, white allies focused more narrowly on cultivating interracial friendship, marching in parallel to Black movement leaders rather than alongside them. Damned Whiteness offers an unflinching history of white-led efforts at interracial organizing gone astray. Considering the examples of Dorothy Day, cofounder of the Catholic Worker Movement; Clarence Jordan, spiritual father of Habitat for Humanity; and Ralph Templin, a Christian missionary who studied nonviolence in Gandhi's India, David F. Evans reveals how religious white progressives inherited strategies that remained disconnected from the ideas and actions of Black communities. These disconnects have often been cloaked as disagreements over religious doctrine and practice, but Evans reveals how they stem from refusals to acknowledge Black leaders' philosophies and freedom dreams. Though these patterns persist, Evans offers a way out of this legacy of white allyship and into a future where freedom is possible"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-286) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2025015421 |
| ISBN | 9781469691466 cloth |
| ISBN | 9781469691473 paperback |
| ISBN | epub |
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