Confounded Identities: A Meditation on Race, Feminism, and Religious Studies in Times of White Supremacy
This article addresses the pervasiveness of white supremacy in American identity-thinking. Challenging the use of identity to structure unity platforms in academia, I advocate for Black-transnational feminist-queer strategies that demand coalition-based politics oriented around a transformative radi...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2018]
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 86, Issue: 2, Pages: 307-340 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Identity politics
/ Whites
/ Hegemony
/ Science of Religion
/ Feminism
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RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion KBQ North America ZC Politics in general |
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Summary: | This article addresses the pervasiveness of white supremacy in American identity-thinking. Challenging the use of identity to structure unity platforms in academia, I advocate for Black-transnational feminist-queer strategies that demand coalition-based politics oriented around a transformative radical potential. Religious studies is used as an interdisciplinary case study to understand the problem of academic identity-thinking, where I show first, how white privilege is maintained in the scholar-practitioner divide, and second, how white supremacy is naturalized in identity-thinking. Eschewing relative or comparative approaches that reify identity-based logics, I move towards analytic and technical approaches that are productive of an activist-oriented decolonial stance. This gesture draws on the relationality, conflict, tension, power, and politics of studying racialized religious and spiritual subjects with an unapologetically transformative agenda. |
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ISSN: | 1477-4585 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfx085 |