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Contesting Post-Racialism Contesting Post-Racialism Conflicted Churches in the United States and South Africa Edited by R. Drew Smith, William Ackah, Anthony G. Reddie, and Rothney S. Tshaka University Press of Mississippi / Jackson www.upress.state.ms.us The University Press of Mississippi is a member of the Association of American University Presses. Copyright © 2015 by University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing 2015 ∞ Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Contesting post-racialism : conflicted churches in the United States and South Africa / edited by R. Drew Smith, William Ackah, Anthony G. Reddie, Rothney S. Tshaka. pages cm Includes index. ISBN 978-1-62846-200-5 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-62674-505-6 (ebook) 1. Race relations—Religious aspects—Christianity. 2. South Africa—Race relations. 3. United States—Race relations. 4. Church and social problems—South Africa. 5. Church and social problems—United States. 6. Post-racialism. I. Smith, R. Drew, 1956– editor of compilation. II. Ackah, William, editor of compilation. III. Reddie, Anthony, editor of compilation. IV. Tshaka, Rothney S. (Rothney Stok), editor of compilation. BT734.2.T74 2015 261.8328496—dc23 2014031673 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available Contents vii Acknowledgments 3 Introduction R. Drew Smith I. Periodizing the Discourse on Black Christianity and Race 13 A Restless Presence: Church Activism and “Post-Apartheid,” “Post-Racial” Challenges Allan Boesak 37 Shape-Shifting: Cultural Hauntings, Contested Post-Racialism, and Black Theological Imagination Walter Earl Fluker II. Race, Social Divisions, and Restructured Ecclesial Spaces 65 High School Students, the Catholic Church, and the Struggle for Black Inclusion and Citizenship in Rock Hill, South Carolina Luci Vaden 80 Christian Youth Activism and South African Black Ecclesiology Reggie Nel 96 White Theology amidst White Rhetoric on Violence Cobus van Wyngaard III. Religious Cultural Impairments in Assessing Racism’s Social Costs 111 “They Must Have a Different God Than Our God”: Towards a Lived Theology of Black Churchwomen during the United States Civil Rights Movement AnneMarie Mingo vi Contents 122 Church Youth Activism and Political and Economic Constraints within “Post-Racial” South Africa Chabo Freddy Pilusa 130 Black South African Christian Response to Afrophobia in Contemporary South Africa Rothney S. Tshaka IV. Theology and (Re)Vitalized Race Consciousness 153 Collisions between Racism and the Truth of the Cross Leah Gaskin Fitchue and Ebony Joy Fitchue 171 Pursuing American Racial Justice and a Politically and Theologically Informed Black Church Praxis Forrest E. Harris Sr. 185 In Defense of “Christian Activism”: The Case of Allan Boesak Boitumelo Senokoane 198 Legitimacy: The Praxis of Consensing and Consenting in the Contested Post- Racial Democratic Discourse in South Africa Vuyani Vellem 211 In Search of a Transforming Public Theology: Drinking from the Wells of Black Theology Nico Koopman V. Concluding Thoughts 229 Whither Transcendence? Framing the Contours of Transatlantic Black Unity in Contested Post-Racialized Times William Ackah 243 Contextuality of Black Experience and Contributions to a Wider Debate Anthony G. Reddie 251 Contributors 253 Index Acknowledgments Many persons have contributed to the production of this volume, and we are deeply gratefully for each contribution. Our thanks goes especially to those who contributed chapters to the volume, but also to all the conference participants who served as interlocutors when these chapters were presented at the 2011 Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race (TRRR) con- ference at University of South Africa, and at the 2012 TRRR conference at University of London, Birkbeck College. We also want to acknowledge the generous support provided for these conferences by the University of South Africa’s College of Human Sciences and Department of Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology, and by Birkbeck College’s Department of Geography, Environment, and Development Studies. We are also indebted to Craig Gill at University Press of Mississippi for his interest in the research we assembled in this volume and for shepherding the volume through to publication. We are most indebted to the persons and groups discussed in these chapters whose grapplings with intersections of religion and race have provided cautions, critiques, and crosswalks for those caught at the crossings. vii Contesting Post-Racialism
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