Varia Americana and Race
This article explores the place of African Americans in the account of Abraham Kuyper’s 1898 American séjour found in his untranslated text Varia Americana. Utilizing Wellman’s Portraits of White Racism, its working definition of racism includes both intentional and unintentional acts that support a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Journal of reformed theology
Year: 2017, Volume: 11, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 65-80 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CH Christianity and Society KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBP America KDD Protestant Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Kuyper
race
racism
America
neo-Calvinism
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| Summary: | This article explores the place of African Americans in the account of Abraham Kuyper’s 1898 American séjour found in his untranslated text Varia Americana. Utilizing Wellman’s Portraits of White Racism, its working definition of racism includes both intentional and unintentional acts that support a prejudicial racial status quo. In that light, Kuyper’s text is read as intentionally critiquing American society as racist, while also unintentionally furthering the narrative that maintained the racism he wished to condemn. As such, the article aims to prompt more nuanced engagement with the ‘deep logic’ of Kuyper’s thought, in order to aid his later inheritors in their task of reading Kuyper against himself on the topic of race. |
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| ISSN: | 1569-7312 |
| Contains: | In: Journal of reformed theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01101016 |