Deliver Us from Evil Resisting Racial and Gender Oppression
- Philadelphia Fortress Press 1996
- 220p
includes index and biblioraphy
PART ONE: RESISTING RACIAL AND GENDER OPPRESSION 1. Race, Gender, and White Supremacy: The Case of Harriet Jacobs Harriet Jacobs` Resistance The Nature of White Supremacy Debate and Betrayal Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Rush 2. Women and Male Dominance: The Case of Freud and Dora Dora`s Resistance The Nature of Male Dominance Why Study Freud? Interpretations of Freud Dora as a Frigid Hysteric Dora as a Feminist Hero Dora as Freud`s Fantasy Freud`s Betrayal of Dora Freud and Male Violence Freud and Women`s Agency 3. The Revolution Betrayed: How Freedom Was Suppressed During the Colonial Period Racial Oppression during the Colonial Period Gender Oppression during the Colonial Period Between the Wars The Economic and Institutional Context African American Resistance Communities Women`s Resistance Communities Debate and Betrayal 4. Emancipation for Whom? How Racism and Sexism Survived Reconstruction 63 Economic and Institutional Setting The Resistance Communities Debate and Betrayal The Debate about Race The Debate about Gender 5. Contemporary Resistance and Betrayal 84 Black Male Theology White Feminist Theology Black Womanist Theology Resistance, Backlash, and Betrayal The White Debate about the Black Family Debates about Sexual Abuse PART TWO: RESISTING EVIL IN THE NAME OF JESUS 6. Understanding Resistance to Evil 103 The Dynamic of Resistance and Evil The Nature of Resistance Personal Reflections 7. Defining Evil 110 The Hiddenness of Evil Genuine Evil
Evil as Abuse of Power That Destroys Bodies and Spirits The Structure of Evil Personal Evil Social Evil Religious Evil 8. Re-imagining Jesus`Resistance to Evil 136 Issues of Christology in the Communities of Resistance Questions and Confessions from Womanist Theologians Questions and Confessions from Feminist Theologians Race and Gender as Aspects of Hermeneutical Method A Hermeneutics of Suspicion and Confession 9. Jesus as Religious Resister 156 Jesus as Religious Resister Jesus` Disclosure of the Multiplicity and Ambiguity of God and Humans African American Women European American Women European American Men God and Christ as One and Multiple God and Christ as Perfect and Ambiguous A New Image of Jesus A Christology to Inspire Worship Postscript: Practicing Goodness 175 1. Develop a spirituality of resistance 2. Live in solidarity with resistance communities 3. Take moral and material inventory 4. Confront the abuser within 5. Confront other persons of power 6. Negotiate with institutions