James Baldwin and the “Lie of Whiteness”: Toward an Ethic of Culpability, Complicity, and Confession

This article is an attempt to draw on James Baldwin’s depiction of white identity as the “the lie of whiteness” to tease out a nascent ethics that centers the role of genuine, honest confrontation with this so-called “lie.” In order to connect the dots between excavation of Baldwin’s lie of whitenes...

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Main Author: Oliver, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2021
In: Religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 12, Issue: 6
Further subjects:B Confession
B Apocalypse
B James Baldwin
B African American religion
B Religious Ethics
B Racism
B Religion And Politics
B Whiteness
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