J. Kameron Carter

First published in 1992 at the height of the furor over the Rodney King incident, Studs Terkel's Race was an immediate bestseller. In a rare and revealing look at how people in America truly feel about race, Terkel brings out the full complexity of the thoughts and emotions of both blacks and whites, uncovering a fascinating narrative of changing opinions. Preachers and street punks, college students and Klansmen, interracial couples, the nephew of the founder of apartheid, and Emmett Till's mother are among those whose voices appear in Race. In all, nearly one hundred Americans talk openly about attitudes that few are willing to admit in public: Feelings about affirmative action, gentrification, secret prejudices, and dashed hopes.

Summary:"In The Anarchy of Black Religion, J. Kameron Carter argues that the modern re-invention of religion is inseparable from antiblackness, with whiteness and white supremacy acting as political theologies forming the modern world. Carter employs an understanding of religion as a structuring imagination of matter and culture, opening a way of thinking about racial histories, racial subjection, ontology, and the present as religious configurations. Given the extent to which religion exists within the colonial and capitalist cosmology of separability, Carter proposes "the black study of religion" as a practice that would work against the extractive, individualistic, and imperialist ideology of capitalism"-- Provided by publisher