عنوان

Converting Racism

LA127159

انگلیسی

Converting Racism

[Article]

Claire Cooke

Leiden

Brill

African American Charlotte Wright's book Beneath the Southern Cross: The Story of an American Bishop's Wife in South Africa (1955) is a unique text. This article uses a womanist theological framework, situated within studies of African American women and religion, to acknowledge that the experiences and writing of Wright must be considered in terms of race, gender, class, and theological influences. By considering these four factors in conjunction it is argued that despite the conservative nature of Wright's text she subtly, but radically, challenged the erotic gaze and derogatory racial stereotypes of African American inferiority. African American Charlotte Wright's book Beneath the Southern Cross: The Story of an American Bishop's Wife in South Africa (1955) is a unique text. This article uses a womanist theological framework, situated within studies of African American women and religion, to acknowledge that the experiences and writing of Wright must be considered in terms of race, gender, class, and theological influences. By considering these four factors in conjunction it is argued that despite the conservative nature of Wright's text she subtly, but radically, challenged the erotic gaze and derogatory racial stereotypes of African American inferiority.

2018

163-188

Social Sciences and Missions

31/1-2

1874-8945

African American

African Methodist Episcopal

Afrique du Sud

Afro-Américain

cleanliness

Église africaine méthodiste épiscopalienne

femmes missionnaires

missionary women

pureté

South Africa

Claire Cooke

10.1163/18748945-03101002

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[Article]

275578

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