This book challenges conventional paradigms as it demonstrates what tolerance and situational context mean for many black and white community members who live with the ghosts of the Confederacy every day.
While mass shootings make headlines, the more routine effects of corporate and government decisions on our well-being are downplayed. This book analyzes how economic and political inequalities lead to forms of violence that routinely cause harm.
Bridging Generations, Race Relations, and Well-Being
Interracial Romance and Health: Bridging Generations, Race Relations, and Well-Being examines how the race of one's partner, and the couple's racial composition, can affect a person's lived experiences and health outcomes.
Toward a North American Indigenized Pastoral Theology
Through practical theological and anthro/gynopological methods, Insurrectionist Wisdoms offers an analysis of the situation of working-class Maya mexicanas living in Yucatan, Mexico, working on the assembly line of a multinational corporation.
Alternative Christian Movements and the Struggle for Black Freedom
The Other Black Church places Father Divine, Charles Mason of COGIC, and Albert Cleage in conversation with the long history of Black theology and Black religious studies, and it suggests that alternative Christian movements are essential for thinking about African American critiques of and responses to the failures of US-based democracy.
A Call for Liberation and Social Justice in Turbulent Times
Womanist thought remains of critical importance given contemporary issues of social justice and advocacy. Womanist Ethical Rhetoric centers discourses of religious rhetoric and its influence on Black women's aims for voice, empowerment, and agency in these turbulent times.
A hybrid of memoir and history, Race, Identity, and Privilege from the US to the Congo explores Brenda F. Berrian's experiences of being both an insider and outsider throughout her global travels and of developing her racial, feminist, and political consciousness as a Black woman along the way.
Experiences of Isolation, Family-Dependency, and Social Policy in Contem
Hikikomori is considered an increasingly prevalent form of social isolation in Japan. This book explores personal hikikomori experiences and explains how post-war Japanese social policy, which depends on corporations and families, has created several generations of isolated, family-dependent individuals in contemporary Japan.
