Whiteness Archives - The Other Journal

27: Identity

Jesus Doesn’t Want Me for a Sunbeam: Thoughts on Depression, Race, and Theology

Peter Herman
April 6, 2017 / Theology

Peter Herman’s depression helps him nurture empathy and compassion with those who suffer most under a racist regime.

24: Geography

Desire and Its Inversions: On the Roots of White Racial Terror(ism)

Matt Elia
November 25, 2014 / Theology

White people’s fear of blackness remains a deadly, ongoing crisis, one with a deep history implicating Western rationality, aesthetics, and the spatial ordering of life itself.

23: Body

The Enduring World of Dr. Schultz: James Baldwin, Django Unchained, and the Crisis of Whiteness

Scott Schomburg
September 12, 2013 / Theology

Through the lens of James Baldwin’s black intellectual imagination, Quentin Tarantino’s slave revenge fantasy, Django Unchained, becomes a terrifying allegory of white progressive identity in America today.

16: Race

The Jew from Nazareth and the Problem of Whiteness: J. Kameron Carter’s Theological Account of Race

Adam McInturf
December 8, 2009 / Perspective

A review of J. Kameron Carter’s recently published book, RACE: A THEOLOGICAL ACCOUNT.