عنوان

Dignity denied: A theological anthropology of whiteness

Number

TL48280

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Dignity denied: A theological anthropology of whiteness

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Jr. McLeod, James D.

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Ray, Stephen G.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

237

Text of Note

Committee members: Murphy, Larry G.; Papandrea, Jim L.; Perkinson, James W.

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-84675-1

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Theological, Historical, and Ethical Studies

Body granting the degree

Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

Text preceding or following the note

2015

Text of Note

At the foundation of the United States rests, just below the surface, a story of conquest and genocide of indigenous peoples in Central and North America. The actions of Christopher Columbus and the earliest colonists in North America were undergirded by a view of the world, in which the supremacy of those of European descent was both unspoken and assumed. The presumptions about the nature of persons and groups outside the bounds of Europe were instrumental in the origination of the United States and its practices of slavery, segregation, lynching, and military incursions. What originated as a myth of Anglo-Saxon purity, taking both the English culture and Germanic tribalism, became the concept of whiteness in the United States. Whiteness or white supremacy, though often reconfigured, has been the central tenet of American society since its founding. First used to establish superiority over the native peoples already occupying the land, it was soon expanded to establish the inferiority African Slaves, immigrants, persons of the Jewish faith, Muslims, and sexual minorities. The roots of the conception of whiteness will be traced to show the degree to which race, religion, and cultural pride, arising first in Europe before being reformed in the United States, ensured a racial caste system that relegated oppressed communities to permanent and irrevocable second-class status within the nation. This project will draw to a close by showing the degree to which the earliest presumptions about racial superiority and inferiority remain at the center of the contemporary conservative movement within the United States and its efforts to culturally return the country to a previous era in which racial lines of demarcation were infallible.

Theology; History

Subject Term

Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Genocide;Germanic tribalism;Indigenous people

Adou, Baba

Ray, Stephen G.

Subdivision

Theological, Historical, and Ethical Studies

Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

Call Number

1697861460; 3709158

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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