The End of Whiteness: Why a Secularist Vision Will Never Defeat Racism

Many well-meaning “white” people adopt an antiracist agenda because we believe it provides the antidote to pernicious racialized inequity in the United States. Ironically, this schema maintains racism, strengthens whiteness as the measure of humanity, and inoculates us against imagining any alternat...

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Main Author: Dufault-Hunter, Erin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Philosophy Documentation Center 2023
In: Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Year: 2023, Volume: 43, Issue: 2, Pages: 365-379
IxTheo Classification:KBQ North America
NBE Anthropology
NBQ Eschatology
NCC Social ethics
NCD Political ethics
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Summary:Many well-meaning “white” people adopt an antiracist agenda because we believe it provides the antidote to pernicious racialized inequity in the United States. Ironically, this schema maintains racism, strengthens whiteness as the measure of humanity, and inoculates us against imagining any alternative to racism’s logic. I argue that we can break the fetters of racism by framing whiteness as a principality and power. Perceived as a demonic force rather than an “identity,” we can perceive the goals of whiteness as well as the spirituality that fuels it—and cast it out. We are then freed to “reinvent the future,” emancipated from racialized politics and its violence.
ISSN:2326-2176
Contains:Enthalten in: Society of Christian Ethics, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.5840/jsce202411893