Beyond Slavery : Overcoming Its Religious and Sexual Legacies / edited by B. Brooten.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brooten, Bernadette J.

Hazelton, Jacqueline L.

Series:

Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice, 2945-6983

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--History.

Religion.

Psychology and religion.

Religion and sociology.

History of Religion.

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality.

Sociology of Religion.

Local Subjects:

History of Religion.

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality.

Sociology of Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2010.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book looks at a United States that continues to be driven by racial and cultural divisions, from the disproportionately high number of incarcerated African Americans to heartfelt disagreements over the true nature of marriage and the proper role of faith in public policy.

Contents:

Introduction / Bernadette J. Brooten

PART I: A prayer: Prayer for my daughter (poem) / Nancy Rawles

PART II: Overcoming slavery's legacies in the United States: The paradox of silence and display: sexual violation of enslaved women, and contemporary contradictions in Black female sexuality / Dorothy Roberts

From Mammy to welfare queen: images of Black women in public-policy formation / Emilie M. Townes

From plantations to prisons: African American women prisoners in the United States / Ellen Barry

PART III: Overcoming slavery's legacies in religious law: The purchase of His money: slavery and the ethics of Jewish marriage / Gail Labovitz

Slavery and sexual ethics in Islam / Kecia Ali

PART IV: Ancient origins of the problems: "She shall ot go free as male slaves do": seveloping views about slavery and gender in the laws of the Hebrew Bible / David P. Wright

Early Christianity, slavery, and women's bodies / Jennifer A. Glancy

Gender, slavery, and technology: the shaping of the early Christian moral imagination / Sheila Briggs

PART V: Why sexual ethics needs history: "As if she were his wife": slavery and sexual ethics in late Medieval Spain / Debra Blumenthal

Love, sex, slavery, and Sally Hemings / Mia Bay

Breaking the silence: sexual hypocrisies from Thomas Jefferson to Strom Thurmond / Catherine Clinton

PART VI: Should the Bible form the basis of public policy: The Bible, slavery, and the problem of authority / Sylvester A. Johnson

The "purity of the white woman, not the purity of the Negro woman": the contemporary legacies of historical laws against interracial marriage / Fay Botham

PART VII: The stories we tell: Mammy's daughters; or, the DNA of a feminist sexual ethics / Frances Smith Foster

PART VIII: Restorative justice: Enslaved Black women: a theology of justice and reparations / Dwight N. Hopkins

PART IX: A mediation: A visit from the old mistress (poem) / Florence Ladd

Epilogue / Mende Nazer, with Bernadette J. Brooten.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612993039

9781282993037

1282993038

9780230113893

0230113893