The Religion of White Rage
White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress
Published on 15. September 2020
Book
Hardback
360 pages
978-1-4744-7370-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book sheds light on the phenomenon of white rage, and maps out the uneasy relationship between white anxiety, religious fervour, American identity and perceived black racial progress. Contributors to the volume examine the sociological construct of the "white labourer", whose concerns and beliefs can be understood as religious in foundation, and uncover that white religious fervor correlates to notions of perceived white loss and perceived black progress. In discussions ranging from the Constitution to the Charlottesville riots to the evangelical community's uncritical support for Trump, the authors of this collection argue that it is not economics but religion and race that stand as the primary motivating factors for the rise of white rage and white supremacist sentiment in the United States.
Reviews / Votes
The Religion of White Rage is an original contribution concerning the reasons millions of working-class white people are routinely mobilized by racist, sexist, capitalist exploiters to hate people of color, especially African Americans, who have never oppressed them but are seen as rivals for scarce jobs and resources. [...] Summing Up: Recommended. All levels. -- B. Agozino, Virginia Tech * CHOICE * The Religion of White Rage is an original contribution concerning the reasons millions of working-class white people are routinely mobilized by racist, sexist, capitalist exploiters to hate people of color, especially African Americans, who have never oppressed them but are seen as rivals for scarce jobs and resources. [...] Summing Up: Recommended. All levels. -- B. Agozino, Virginia Tech * CHOICE *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 162 mm
Width: 240 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
642 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-7370-5 (9781474473705)
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Persons
Stephen C. Finley is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and African & African American Studies and Director of the African & African American Studies Program at Louisiana State University. He is co-editor of authored Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: "There Is a Mystery"... (with Margarita Guillory and Hugh Page Jr, Brill, 2014) and author of the monograph, In and Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam. Biko Mandela Gray is Assistant Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. He is the author of Black Life Matter: Blackness, Religion, and the Subject (Duke University Press, 2023). He is co-editor of The Religion of White Rage: White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). Lori Latrice Martin is Professor in the Department of Sociology and African and African American Studies at Louisiana State University. Dr. Martin is the author of numerous scholarly works. Martin's most recent publications include South Baton Rouge, Black Asset Poverty and the Enduring Racial Divide, Color Struck and Big Box Schools: Race, Education, and the Danger of the Wal-Martization of American Public Schools.
Editor
Associate Professor of Religious Studies and African & African American Studies, and Director of the African & African American Studies ProgramLouisiana State University
Assistant Professor of ReligionSyracuse University
Professor in the Department of Sociology and African and African American StudiesLouisiana State University
Content
Introduction"The Souls of White Folk": Race, Affect, and Religion in the Religion of White RageBiko Mandela Gray, Stephen C. Finley, Lori Latrice Martin
Part I: White Religious Fervor and Contemporary American Politics
1. "Make America Great Again": Racial Pathology, White Consolidation, and Melancholia in Trump's AmericaStephen C. Finley
2. You Will Not Replace Us! An Exploration of Religio-Racial Identity in White NationalismDarrius Hills
3. "I AM that I AM": The Religion of White Rage, Great Migration Detroit, and the Ford Motor CompanyTerri Laws and Kimberly Enard
4. American (Un)Civil Religion, the Defense of the White Worker, and Responses to NFL ProtestsLori Latrice Martin
5. The Color of Belief: Black Social Christianity, White Evangelicalism, and Redbaiting the Religious Culture of the CIO in the Postwar SouthElizabeth Fones-Wolf and Ken Fones-Wolf
6. Constitutional Whiteness: Class, Narcissism, and the Source of White RageJason Jeffries
Part II: White Religious Fervor, Religious Ideology, and White Identity
7. KKK Christology: A Brief on White Class InsecurityPaul Easterling
8. Black People and White Mormon Rage: Examining Race, Religion, and Politics in ZionDarron Smith, Brenda G. Harris, and Melissa Flores
9. Anatomizing White Rage: "Race is My Religion!" and "White Genocide"Kate Temoney
10. Exorcising Blackness: Calling the Cops as an Affective Performance of GenderBiko Mandela Gray
11. White Power Barbie and Other Figures of the Angry White WomanDanae Faulk
12. Weaponizing Religion: A Document Analysis of the Religious Indoctrination of Slaves in Service of White Labor ElitesE. Anthony Muhammad
13. The Religions of Black Resistance and White Rage: Interpenetrative Religious Practice in the 1963 Civil Rights Struggle in Danville, Virginia Tobin Miller Shearer
ConclusionRace, Religion, and Labor Studies: The Way ForwardLori Latrice Martin, Stephen C. Finley, Biko Mandela Gray
Notes; Bibliography; Index
Part I: White Religious Fervor and Contemporary American Politics
1. "Make America Great Again": Racial Pathology, White Consolidation, and Melancholia in Trump's AmericaStephen C. Finley
2. You Will Not Replace Us! An Exploration of Religio-Racial Identity in White NationalismDarrius Hills
3. "I AM that I AM": The Religion of White Rage, Great Migration Detroit, and the Ford Motor CompanyTerri Laws and Kimberly Enard
4. American (Un)Civil Religion, the Defense of the White Worker, and Responses to NFL ProtestsLori Latrice Martin
5. The Color of Belief: Black Social Christianity, White Evangelicalism, and Redbaiting the Religious Culture of the CIO in the Postwar SouthElizabeth Fones-Wolf and Ken Fones-Wolf
6. Constitutional Whiteness: Class, Narcissism, and the Source of White RageJason Jeffries
Part II: White Religious Fervor, Religious Ideology, and White Identity
7. KKK Christology: A Brief on White Class InsecurityPaul Easterling
8. Black People and White Mormon Rage: Examining Race, Religion, and Politics in ZionDarron Smith, Brenda G. Harris, and Melissa Flores
9. Anatomizing White Rage: "Race is My Religion!" and "White Genocide"Kate Temoney
10. Exorcising Blackness: Calling the Cops as an Affective Performance of GenderBiko Mandela Gray
11. White Power Barbie and Other Figures of the Angry White WomanDanae Faulk
12. Weaponizing Religion: A Document Analysis of the Religious Indoctrination of Slaves in Service of White Labor ElitesE. Anthony Muhammad
13. The Religions of Black Resistance and White Rage: Interpenetrative Religious Practice in the 1963 Civil Rights Struggle in Danville, Virginia Tobin Miller Shearer
ConclusionRace, Religion, and Labor Studies: The Way ForwardLori Latrice Martin, Stephen C. Finley, Biko Mandela Gray
Notes; Bibliography; Index