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The Religion of White Rage

Religious Fervor, White Workers and the Myth of Black Racial Progress

Stephen C. Finley Biko Mandela Gray Lori Latrice Martin

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English
Edinburgh University Press
04 January 2021
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.
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Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
ISBN:   9781474473705
ISBN 10:   1474473709
Pages:   297
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for The Religion of White Rage: Religious Fervor, White Workers and the Myth of Black Racial Progress

"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"""


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