The Religion of White Rage: White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress

Stephen C. Finley; Biko Mandela Gray; Lori Latrice Martin

Open Access Published by Edinburgh University Press 2020

The Religion of White Rage

White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress

Stephen C. Finley , Biko Mandela Gray and Lori Latrice Martin

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474473729

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Critically analyses the historical, cultural and political dimensions of white religious rage in America, past and present

Argues that religion and race – not economics – are the primary motivating factors for the rise of white rage and white supremacist sentiment in the USA
Makes key interventions in labour studies and American religious studies
Examines the mythological and sociological construct of the 'white labourer'
Uncovers the sociological and religious origins of white anxiety
Uses the perspectives of theory and method in religious studies, affect studies and critical whiteness studies
Shows that white rage is a phenomenon that moves in and through the institutional legitimation of certain forms of white expression and engagement, both 'liberal' and 'conservative'

This book sheds light on the phenomenon of white rage, and maps out the uneasy relationship between white anxiety, religious fervour, American identity and perceived black racial progress. Contributors to the volume examine the sociological construct of the 'white labourer', whose concerns and beliefs can be understood as religious in foundation. They uncover that white religious fervor correlates to notions of perceived white loss and perceived black progress.

In discussions ranging from the Constitution to the Charlottesville riots and the evangelical Christian community’s uncritical support for Trump, this collection argues that it is not economics but religion and race that stand as the primary motivating factors for the rise of white rage and white supremacist sentiment in the United States.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
NOTES ON THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
INTRODUCTION. “The Souls of White Folk”: Race, Affect, and Religion in the Religion of White Rage Biko Mandela Gray, Stephen C. Finley and Lori Latrice Martin Open Access Download PDF	1
Part One White Religious Fervor, Civil Religion, and Contemporary American Politics
ONE “Make America Great Again”: Racial Pathology, White Consolidation, and Melancholia in Trump’s America Stephen C. Finley Open Access Download PDF	27
TWO You Will Not Replace Us! An Exploration of Religio-Racial Identity in White Nationalism Darrius Hills Open Access Download PDF	43
THREE “I AM that I AM”: The Religion of White Rage, Great Migration Detroit, and the Ford Motor Company Terri Laws and Kimberly R. Enard Open Access Download PDF	58
FOUR American (Un)Civil Religion, the Defense of the White Worker, and Responses to NFL Protests Lori Latrice Martin Open Access Download PDF	73
FIVE The Color of Belief: Black Social Christianity, White Evangelicalism, and Redbaiting the Religious Culture of the CIO in the Postwar South Elizabeth Fones-Wolf and Ken Fones-Wolf Open Access Download PDF	85
SIX Constitutional Whiteness: Class, Narcissism, and the Source of White Rage Jason O. Jeffries Open Access Download PDF	108
Part Two White Religious Fervor, Religious Ideology, and White Identity
SEVEN KKK Christology: A Brief on White Class Insecurity Paul Easterling Open Access Download PDF	123
EIGHT Black People and White Mormon Rage: Examining Race, Religion, and Politics in Zion Darron T. Smith, Brenda G. Harris and Melissa Flores Open Access Download PDF	135
NINE Anatomizing White Rage: “Race is My Religion!” and “White Genocide” Kate E Temoney Open Access Download PDF	149
TEN Exorcising Blackness: Calling the Cops as an Affective Performance of Gender Biko Mandela Gray Open Access Download PDF	166
ELEVEN White Power Barbie and Other Figures of the Angry White Woman Danae M. Faulk Open Access Download PDF	179
TWELVE Weaponizing Religion: A Document Analysis of the Religious Indoctrination of Slaves in Service of White Labor Elites E. Anthony Muhammad Open Access Download PDF	192
THIRTEEN The Religions of Black Resistance and White Rage: Interpenetrative Religious Practice in the 1963 Civil Rights Struggle in Danville, Virginia Tobin Miller Shearer Open Access Download PDF	213
CONCLUSION Race, Religion, and Labor Studies: The Way Forward Lori L. Martin, Stephen C. Finley and Biko Mandela Gray Open Access Download PDF	227
NOTES Open Access Download PDF	241
BIBLIOGRAPHY Open Access Download PDF	286
INDEX Open Access Download PDF	314

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 360
Keywords: Politics

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Published: April 19, 2022
ISBN: 9781474473729