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Episode I: Notes

Introduction to Race & Modernity

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Our Podcast Bibliography

Exploring The Social Construct of Race

Candelario, Ginetta E B. Black behind the Ears : Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops. NC: Duke University Press, 2007.

Lynch, Willie. The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave. NY: African Tree Press, 2017.

Walker Jr, Theodore. Mothership Connections: A Black Atlantic Synthesis of Neoclassical Metaphysics and Black Theology. NY: State University of New York Press, 2004.

The Impact of Historical Narratives

Irvin, Dale T, and Scott Sunquist. History of the World Christian Movement: Earliest Christianity to 1453. Volume I. London: A&C Black, 2002.

Irvin, Dale T, and Scott W. Sunquist. History of the World Christian Movement. Volume II, Modern Christianity from 1454-1800. NY: Orbis Books, 2012.

The Role of Cinema in Shaping Race

The Birth of a Nation. D.W. Griffith, 1915. (The Book)

Modernism vs. Meta-Modernism in Racial Discourse

Severan, A, and Brendan Graham Dempsey. Metamodernism and the Return of Transcendence. VT: Palimpsest Press, 2021.

Stoev, Dina. “Metamodernism or Metamodernity.” Arts 11, no. 5 (September 21, 2022): 91. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts11050091.

Van, Robin, Alison Gibbons, and Timotheus Vermeulen. Metamodernism : Historicity, Affect, and Depth after Postmodernism. NY: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017.

Vermeulen, Timotheus, and Robin van den Akker. “Notes on Metamodernism.” Journal of Aesthetics & Culture 2, no. 1 (January 2010): 5677. https://doi.org/10.3402/jac.v2i0.5677.

Evangelism & Its Historical Context

Cone, James H. The Cross and the Lynching Tree. NY: Orbis Books, 2017.

Decolonization & Identity Reconstruction

Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. NY: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011.

Guevara, Che , and John Gerassi. Venceremos! The Speeches and Writings of Ernesto Che Guevara. London: Panther Books, 1969.

The Intersection of Christianity & Race

Dolores S Williams, Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God (Orbis Books, 2013).

Reimagining Religious Frameworks

Faber, Roland. God as Poet of the World: Exploring Process Theologies. KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008.

———. The Ocean of God: On the Transreligious Future of Religions. NY: Anthem Press, 2019.

Keller, Catherine, and Anne Daniell. Process and Difference: Between Cosmological and Poststructuralist Postmodernisms. NY: State University of New York Press, 2002.

Meta-Modernism: Embracing Complexity

Whitehead, Alfred North. Adventure of Ideas. NY: The Free Press, 1933.

———. Modes of Thought. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1968.

———. Religion in the Making: Lowell Lectures 1926. NY: Fordham University Press, 1996.

———. Science and the Modern World. NY: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

———. Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect . NY: Cambridge University Press, 1958.

Whitehead, Alfred North, David Ray Griffin, and Donald W Sherburne. Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology. NY: The Free Press, 1985.