Book #172 of 2021: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain This is a remarkable and remarkably ambitious project, bringing together eighty prominent African American writers, from Angela Davis to Jamelle Bouie to Isabel Wilkerson, in order to pen a sweeping account of …
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Book Review: The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby
Book #267 of 2020: The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby This is an interesting read on the history of racism within white American Protestantism, although I think it would benefit from deeper insight at times into why and how dominant church positions (both implicit and …
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