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  Theory of Racelessness: A Case for Antirace(ism) Sheena Michele Mason Palgrave MacMillian ISBN: 978-3-030-99944-5; May 2022; Hardback - $119.99, eBook - $89   It’s a hot topic, and one that can generate a firestorm of accusations, assertions, and counterattacks. The resulting temperature feels like it has been clearly rising in the last decades. There are multiple reasons presented as to why, some anecdotal, some conspiratorial, and others more socially aware. Just drop the word “racism” into a friendly conversation at work or at the mall, and immediately reactions range from lowered voices and embarrassed looks, to animated pronouncements and declarations. Recently an acquaintance from King’s College in NYC, Dr. Anthony Bradley, announced that a new discussion of the subject was brewing and that Dr. Sheena Michele Mason, Assistant Professor of English (African American Literature) who received her PhD from Howard University, was spearheading this discussion in an ...

  Shelby Steele, the Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, specializes in the study of race relations, multiculturalism, and affirmative action, gives a nice analysis of the shift away from personal morality to social morality in the U.S.A., and the illustrative comparison between Eisenhower and Clinton was very effective. If Eisenhower had done what Clinton did, he would have been booted. If Clinton had said what Eisenhower said (using the N-word) he would have been booted. There's more to the story of the book, but the role of White Guilt, the craving for White absolution, and the need to regain moral authority, was very helpful. Some things a bit dated, but it was written in 2006. Highly recommend.

  Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope Esau McCaulley IVP Academic www.ivpress.com ISBN: 978-0-8308-5486-8; September 2020; $20.00   On occasion I have had the pleasure of overhearing my adult children talking to others without their knowing I was around. It’s quite a humbling experience, and many times, encouraging to hear them owning the faith for themselves. Their interactions with the other person were not meant for my ears necessarily, which is what makes it even more meaningful. That’s very much the case with a new 208-page softback, “Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope”. Esau McCaulley, assistant professor of New Testament at Wheaton College, priest in the Anglican Church in North America, contributing opinion writer for  The New York Times , and host of  The Disrupters  podcast, is writing for a black audience that may be skeptical of Christianity and doubtfu...

Black Rednecks & White Liberals by Thomas Sowell My rating: 5 of 5 stars Thomas Sowell, the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, prolific writer, and award-winning thinker, has compiled a series of essays, binding them together in the 250-page paperback "Black Rednecks and White Liberals". Though most of the material is primarily dichromatic, addressing subjects regarding blacks and whites in America, it has a larger reach. Each of the six-lengthy chapters take the reader through piles of historical details, social and cultural phenomena, and economic reflections. It is a studied volume, and will add valuable historical aspects and backgrounds to one's knowledge. The author butts heads with much of the reigning tales and tutelage on race, slavery, history, conquests, colonialism, and economics. He doesn't debunk or dismiss, as much as he fills out what is usually missing or misdirected. This is a manuscript made to ...