Full Description
This groundbreaking book provides an analytical tool to understand how and why evil works in the world as it does. Deconstructing memory, history, and myth as received wisdom, the volume critically examines racism, sexism, poverty, and stereotypes.
Contents
Preface: On Memory Introduction: The Womanist Dancing Mind: Cavorting with Culture and Evil Beginning with Imagination: Proceedings Too Terrible to Relate Vanishing into Limbo: The Moral Dilemma of Identity as Property and Commodity Invisible Things Spoken: Uninterrogated Coloredness Legends as Memories Greater Than Memories: Black Reparations in the United States as Subtext to Empire Wounded in the House of Friends: Religious Values and Public Policy Formation Growing Like Topsy: Solidarity in the Work of Dismantling Evil