As American society evolves, Dr. Robert P. Jones explores how inflexible, conventional norms are shedding their affect, resulting in a rising want for larger spiritual and racial range and inclusion. His newest guide, The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future, analyzes the historic and ongoing legacy of White supremacy, providing a complete exploration of how colonialism, genocide, and racial violence are deeply woven into the material of America’s historical past.
For this week’s episode of The State of Perception, Interfaith Alliance’s weekly radio present and podcast, Robby joins host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush to discover how political and non secular landscapes are repeatedly altered by the rising cultural range inside American society, pushed by the rise of interfaith and interracial households, and the numerous who establish as religiously unaffiliated.
“We had Barack Obama and Kamala Harris, who’re mixed-race candidates. And that’s additionally a actuality in most of America. And I feel this type of mixing of racial and non secular identities…that is the way in which that almost all Individuals are literally navigating their lives. It doesn’t appear like the hierarchical, patriarchal, homogeneous, white picket fence… neighborhood the place all of the folks appear like them, and all of the folks their children go to high school with appear like them. That’s not the fact that almost all Individuals reside with at present, no matter mythology is on the market. So I feel that we’re simply seeing it come in additional public, symbolic ways in which we’re seeing on the high of those tickets, even on the Republican aspect.”
– Dr. Robert P. Jones, president and founding father of the Public Faith Analysis Institute and a distinguished writer whose latest guide, The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future, turned a New York Instances bestseller and has simply been launched in paperback with a brand new and compelling afterword. His earlier works embody White Too Lengthy: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity, which received a 2021 American Ebook Award, and The Finish of White Christian America, which was honored with the 2019 Grawemeyer Award in Faith. Robby’s writing is recurrently present in The Atlantic, TIME, and Faith Information Service and is continuously featured in main media shops, together with CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and The New York Instances. Robby additionally writes a weekly e-newsletter targeted on confronting and therapeutic from the legacy of White supremacy in American Christianity, discovered at www.whitetoolong.internet.
