Tag Archives: Frantz Fanon

Science Fiction and Racial Justice: C.S. Lewis as Anticolonial Subversive

Posted on February 21, 2012 by RodtRDH

  Examining the Particularity of World World II Whiteness ““But the fellah, the unemployed and the starving do not lay claim to truth.  They do not say they represent the truth because they are the truth in their very being.”-Frantz … Continue reading →

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Introducing The Africana Bible: Not A Commentary, but A Folklore

Posted on February 4, 2012 by RodtRDH

The Africana Bible: Reading Israel’s Scriptures From Africa and the African Diaspora When I first heard of The Africana Bible, my first reaction was, oh, here we go again. What haven’t black scholars already said about Black Interpretation and The … Continue reading →

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The New Black Theology And The Patristics

Posted on January 26, 2012 by RodtRDH

TOWARDS A CRITICAL RACE THEOLOGY? Traditionally, the Patristics and their work were used as apologetics to protect Christians and our propositional truth claims. Tertullian agrees with me! No Augustine agrees with me! Origen is a heretic! Clement of Alexandria? Can … Continue reading →

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The Pro Sports Plantation: Fanon And the Black Body

Posted on December 27, 2011 by RodtRDH

“what do you call an educated negro with a B.A. or an M.A., with a B.S., or a PhD?” The answer? “You call him a nigger, because that is what the white man calls him, a nigger.”- Malcolm X “However, … Continue reading →

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Carl Braaten on Missions, Fanon, and Barth

Posted on June 13, 2011 by RodtRDH

Carl Braaten, a Lutheran, was one of the first American-born theologians to adopt and publish on the theologies of hope out of Germany (Dorothy Soelle, Jurgen Moltmann, Wolfhart Pannenberg). While Braaten’s The Future of God: The Revolutionary Dynamics of Hope … Continue reading →

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