Ackah, William (2015) Whither transcendence? Framing the contours of transatlantic black unity in contested post-racialized times. In: Smith, R.D. and Ackah, William and Tshaka, R. and Reddie, A. (eds.) Contesting Post-Racialism: Conflicted Churches in the United States and South Africa. Jackson, U.S.: University Press of Mississippi, pp. 229-242. ISBN 9781628462005.
Abstract
Book synopsis: After the 2008 election and 2012 reelection of Barack Obama as US president and the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as the first of several blacks to serve as South Africa's president, many within the two countries have declared race to be irrelevant. For contributors to this volume, the presumed demise of race may be premature. Given continued racial disparities in income, education, and employment, as well as in perceptions of problems and promise within the two countries, much healing remains unfinished. Nevertheless, despite persistently pronounced disparities between black and white realities, it has become more difficult to articulate racial issues. Some deem "race" an increasingly unnecessary identity in these more self-consciously "post-racial" times. The volume engages post-racial ideas in both their limitations and promise. Contributors look specifically at the extent to which a church's contemporary response to race consciousness and post-racial consciousness enables it to give an accurate public account of race.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Pan-Africanism, Howard Thurman, Allan Boesak, African Diaspora |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | William Ackah |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Jan 2019 14:58 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:47 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/25604 |
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