Katie Walker Grimes is assistant professor of theology and religious studies at Villanova University. She is the author of Fugitive Saints: Catholicism and the Politics of Slavery (Fortress Press, 2017). She has published articles on the relation of white supremacy and the Catholic Church in Political Theology and Horizons and has articles in the Journal of Religious Ethics. She is a regular contributing author to the blog Women in Theology.
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Preface Introduction Part 1: Defining White Supremacy and Antiblackness Supremacy 1. Antiblackness and World History 2. The Nearly Global Afterlife of Black Slavery 3. The Spatial Afterlife of Slavery in the Contemporary United States Part II: Diagnosing the Corporate Habits of Antiblackness Supremacy 4. Inverting Virtue 5. The Catholic Corporate Habits of Antiblackness in the Era of Chattel Slavery 6. Racial Segregation as a Corporate Habit of Antiblackness Supremacy in the Body of Christ 7. Non-Witness Will Not Save Us: The Persistence of Antiblackness Supremacy in the "Brown" Twenty-First Century 8. Toward a Theory of Corporate Virtue and Vice Part III: Antiblackness Supremacy and the Sacraments of Initiation 9. Baptism and the Eucharist as Habits of Antiblackness Supremacy 10. Corporate Vices; Ecclesial Consequences: Poking Holes in the Ecclesiology of "Battened Down Hatches" Part IV: Re-Habituating the Corporate Body of Christ 11. Real Food for Real Bodies: From Sacramental Optimism to Sacramental Realism 12. Dismantling Antiblackness Supremacy