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White Devils, Black Gods
Race, Masculinity, and Religious Codependency
White Devils, Black Gods
Race, Masculinity, and Religious Codependency
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Description
Interweaving academic theory, (auto)ethnography, and memoir-styled narrative, Christopher M. Driscoll explores what the “white devil” trope means for understanding and responding to tensions emerging from toxic white masculinity.
The book provides a historical and philosophical account of the “white devil” as it appears in the stories and myths of various black religious and philosophical traditions, particularly as these traditions are expressed through the contemporary cultural expression of hip-hop. Driscoll argues that the trope of the white devil emerges from a self-hatred in many white men that is concealed (and revealed) through various defence mechanisms – principally, anger – and the book provides rich ground to discuss the relationship between perceptions of self (i.e. who we are), emotional regulation, and our behaviour towards others (i.e. how we act).
Table of Contents
2. Autoethnography as Autopoiesis
3. Introductions
4. Theophany
5. I Am Who I Am
6. Troglodytes
7. Good Lords & White Devils
8. Co-Dependent
9. Neuroses
10. Selfhood
11. Dysfunction
12. Adult Children
13. Cycles of Abuse
14. Emotional Intelligence
15. Discernment
16. My Two Gods
Questions for Discussion
Bibliography
Index
Product details

Published | 06 Oct 2022 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 232 |
ISBN | 9781350175945 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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This book is a gift for this time in history, an essential read for people who want to build communities to counter white racism and nurture expansive, generative interdependence. The analysis of harms done is rigorous and compelling, and the depiction of paths forward for genuine reparations and systemic justice are original, evocative, and catalytic.
Sharon D. Welch, Author of After the Protests Are Heard: Enacting Civic Engagement and Social Transformation (2019).
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As an incredibly rare work in its honesty, transparency, and depth, Christopher M. Driscoll's White Devils, Black Godsis an excellent contribution to the emerging nexus in scholarship on religio-racial identity, gender politics, and hip hop music and culture.
Juan M. Floyd-Thomas, Associate Professor of African American Religious History, Vanderbilt University, USA

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