Disrupting White Supremacy from Within: White People on What We Need to Do

Disrupting White Supremacy from Within: White People on What We Need to Do. Edited by Jennifer Harvey, Karen A. Case, and Robin Hawley Gorsline. Cleveland, Ohio: Pilgrim Press, 2004. 287pp. $30.00 (paper).

Disrupting White Supremacy jknn Within addresses a largely denied cultural reality that also shapes religious life in many ways. The book is a striking analysis of this system and offers strategies to address it, challenging all those clothed by the Census Bureau as "White or Caucasian," especially if part of a faith-based community.

The editors accepted the challenge presented by James Cone to a 2001 conference of the American Academy of Religion. Each editor holds a doctorate from Union Theological Seminary, and their chapters are augmented by six other theologians and one sociologist. Dwight Hopldns of the University of Chicago Divinity School summarizes the book's impact: It surfaces "the truth that the humanity of white sisters and brothers...