RELS 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Emancipation, Wesleyan Quadrilateral, Reinhold Niebuhr
11 Oct 2017
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Incarceration as the new slavery michelle alexander. Black theology and black power (1969) civil rights movement > black power. Black theology is the theological arm of black power, and black power is the political arm of black theology . Grew up in the jim crow south bearden, arkansas. Using christianity not as presented by white christianity but as authenticated to. [black churches] in the experience of su ering and struggle . Two aspects of blackness: the physiological and ontological. Blackness is an ontological symbol for all people who participate in the liberation of man from oppression . For whites, whiteness is being" and blackness is non-being". Critique of reinhold niebuhr: it was easy for neibuhr to walk around in his own shoes, as a white man, and view the world from that vantage point, but it takes a whole lot of empathetic e ort.
