In Review
Religion, Race, and COVID-19
Confronting White Supremacy in the Pandemic
T&T Clark Reader in Abortion and Religion
Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives
The Work of Inclusion
An Ethnography of Grace, Sin, and Intellectual Disabilities
The Ethics of Tainted Legacies
Human Flourishing after Traumatic Pasts
Reenvisioning Sexual Ethics
A Feminist Christian Account
Beyond Welcome
Centering Immigrants in Our Christian Response to Immigration
Walking through the Valley
Womanist Explorations in the Spirit of Katie Geneva Cannon
True Crime and the Justice of God
Ethics, Media, and Forensic Science
Edited by Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas
New York University Press
White supremacy is a virus, and its spread is concurrent with COVID-19. This is the underlying theme of womanist ethicist Stacey Floyd-Thomas’s new edited volume. Featuring 12 scholar-activists across multiple disciplines, this book speaks to how “religion, race, and civil unrest are interconnected” in our present and ongoing pandemics. Some chapters focus on Black love, joy, and community, while others emphasize the harm done to Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities by White evangelicals under the leadership of Donald Trump and his cronies. The voices of Asian Americans are conspicuously missing, apart from Blanche Bong Cook’s reflections on the marriage of her Black father and Korean mother amid the realities of White supremacy. Still, this book troubles readers to think more deeply about the impact of White supremacy—and the hope of Black and Brown love and defiance—as COVID-19 lingers on.
