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.
"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"""