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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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White Supremacy, African Sorcery, and Euro-Christianity
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Black Creativity, Shamanic Remedy, and Afro-Polyphony
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Hip-Hop Ferocity, American Mortality, and Trance Trickery
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Market Liturgy, Indigenous Pedagogy, and the White Body
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About this book
Reviews
"Perkinson's latest book pierces the veil between detached theoretical assessment and lived experience. The work is visceral and evocative "labor at the level of the spleen." His rhythmic analysis of shamanic aspects of white supremacy and cultural resistance draw the reader from tattered and worn "race talk" toward resonance with a vibrating and justice oriented universe. In every chapter, his analysis of race has a poetic beat that infuses issues of race and cultural dissonance with power, clarity, and the potential for embodied restoration." - Barbara A. Holmes, Associate Professor of Ethics and African American Religious Studies, Memphis Theological Seminary
"Perkinson's book is a performance. This is a book by a poet-theologian. It is an example of how to do things not only with words but also with ideas and concepts; an example, in other words, of how to imaginatively perform theology and religious studies. What the book performs is a critical engagement with the world of race, racism and modernity. As such, it offers an example not of inverted snobbery (as we might expect given a certain reading of its authors 'race') but rather of what solidarity with the victims of racialized modernity might look like when practiced and attested by a white man struggling for racial justice. It is not necessary to agree with Perkinson's use of, among others, categories such as 'shamanism' and 'witchcraft' in order to see the power of his prophetic argument and the summons it proposes for us to walk humbly, love mercy and do justly. The book is intelligently written, powerfully argued and verges on being what one might call a counter-genre, a genre in which the poetic, the prophetic and the theological are co-mingled in a special way so as to form a comprehensive hermeneutical challenge to our usual modes of thinking and writing." - Edward P. Antonio, Associate Professor of Theology and Social Theory, Iliff School of Theology
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Shamanism, Racism, and Hip Hop Culture
Book Subtitle: Essays on White Supremacy and Black Subversion
Authors: James W. Perkinson
Series Title: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403979186
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: James W. Perkinson 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6786-2Published: 01 July 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-53031-1Published: 01 July 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-7918-6Published: 07 July 2005
Series ISSN: 2945-6975
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6983
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 227
Topics: Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, African Culture, Religious Studies, general, Social Policy, Ethnicity Studies, History of the Americas