Against (White) Redemption: James Cone and the Christological Disruption of Racial Discourse and White Solidarity

In the early 1970s, James Cone delivered a profound Christological critique of whiteness as a project of redemption. This critique has often been missed because of the confusion regarding Cone's theological account of race. Drawing especially on the recent work of Nahum Chandler, this article develops the way African diasporic identity becomes “a problem for theological thought.” By way of conversation with Chandler, the article shows how Cone's deliberately ambiguous use of racial language effectively disrupts standard discourses on race and theology, which come to be seen as projects to regulate and control human life. White efforts at solidarity – asking how to help, seeking to a good ally or destroying their own whiteness – often become subtle quests to regain control over white identity and thereby contain or incorporate this disruption, this freedom as “revolt” (Cone). Against these projects of white redemption, James Cone offers a deeply Christological critique, pointing to the way they refuse to linger within movements they cannot control, particularly the movement “between,” the appositional or side-by-side joining of the particular God, Jesus of Nazareth, and particular contemporary struggles for black survival and freedom.     

明末清初西部虎患考述

明末清初 ,我国西部地区自山西、陕西经四川到贵州、广西以及云南等省均发生过程度不等的虎患 ,给人民生命财产造成严重损失。本文认为 ,虎患既与人类过分开垦山地导致自然环境恶化有关 ,又与当时战乱动荡导致社会极度破败有关。康熙中叶以后 ,西部地区虎患日渐减少 ,说明人在改造自然界的过程中征服了老虎 ,但也最终破坏了自然环境。     

Charles Bonnet: The Black Kingdom of the Nile

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