Redeeming Mulatto

Brian Bantum is Associate Professor of Theology at Seattle Pacific University and Seminary. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Introduction Part I Renunciation: Racial Discipleship and the Religiosity of Race 1. I Am Your Son, White Man! The Mulatto/a and the Tragic 2. Neither Fish nor Fowl Presence as Politics Part II Confession: Christ, the Tragic Mulatto 3. Unto Us a Child Is Born or ""How can this be?"" The Mulatto Christ 4. I Am the Way Mulatto/a Redemption and the Politics of Identification Part III Immersion: Christian Discipleship or the New Discipline of the Body 5. You Must Be Reborn Baptism and Mulatto/a ReBirth 6. The Politics of Presence Prayer and Discipleship Benediction Notes

Bantum moves beyond [Milbank] by arguing that white racism is religious in outlook, leaving no place for mulattos. But Christ transgresses racial boundaries in assuming human nature. The Calcedonian definition defines Christ as uniquely mulatto...Seminary libraries should have [this book]. -- Religious Studies Review Bantum invites us into a new existence, an interstitial or in-between Christian life beyond race...this is an important book that makes a genuine breakthrough in discussions of theology and race. Bantum succeeds in taking us beyond the binary impasses of black theology and the racial (if not racist) indifference of white Christianity. -- The Christian Century, 2012 Any preacher that is interested in reflecting on the racial construction of theology in her or his preaching would benefit from this intelligent work. -- Timothy Jones, Ph. D. student, Boston University School of Theology -- Homiletic