Whiteness rooted in place
“All of our efforts at changing the social fabric of this country must begin with changing the geographic fabric.”
(Photo by Mara Lavitt for Yale Divinity School)
Willie Jennings teaches systematic theology and Africana studies at Yale Divinity School. His most recent book is After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging.
Let’s start with your understanding of this thing we call race. What is it?
Race is a distorted way of seeing the world within Christian thought. We might want to say that race is a distorted view of creation, a distorted view of the order of the body and of the relationship between the body and land, and a distorted view of the relations that should exist because of those views of body and land.
