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Record Nr.

UNINA9910477332703321

Autore

Finley Stephen C.

Titolo

The religion of white rage : religious fervor, white workers and the myth of black racial progress / / edited by Stephen C. Finley, Biko Mandela Gray, Lori Latrice Martin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, Scotland : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-4744-7372-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

305.800973

Soggetti

White nationalism - United States

White people - United States - Attitudes

White people - United States - Politics and government

Racism - United States - Religious aspects

Ethnische Identität

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- NOTES ON THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. “The Souls of White Folk”: Race, Affect, and Religion in the Religion of White Rage -- Part One White Religious Fervor, Civil Religion, and Contemporary American Politics -- ONE “Make America Great Again”: Racial Pathology, White Consolidation, and Melancholia in Trump’s America -- TWO You Will Not Replace Us! An Exploration of Religio-Racial Identity in White Nationalism -- THREE “I AM that I AM”: The Religion of White Rage, Great Migration Detroit, and the Ford Motor Company -- FOUR American (Un)Civil Religion, the Defense of the White Worker, and Responses to NFL Protests -- FIVE The Color of Belief: Black Social Christianity, White Evangelicalism, and Redbaiting the Religious Culture of the CIO in the Postwar South -- SIX Constitutional Whiteness: Class, Narcissism, and the Source of White Rage -- Part Two White Religious Fervor, Religious Ideology, and White Identity -- SEVEN KKK Christology: A Brief on White Class Insecurity -- EIGHT Black People and White Mormon Rage: Examining Race, Religion,



and Politics in Zion -- NINE Anatomizing White Rage: “Race is My Religion!” and “White Genocide” -- TEN Exorcising Blackness: Calling the Cops as an Affective Performance of Gender -- ELEVEN White Power Barbie and Other Figures of the Angry White Woman -- TWELVE Weaponizing Religion: A Document Analysis of the Religious Indoctrination of Slaves in Service of White Labor Elites -- THIRTEEN The Religions of Black Resistance and White Rage: Interpenetrative Religious Practice in the 1963 Civil Rights Struggle in Danville, Virginia -- CONCLUSION Race, Religion, and Labor Studies: The Way Forward -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This book sheds light on the phenomenon of white rage, and maps out the uneasy relationship between white anxiety, religious fervour, American identity and perceived black racial progress.