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Christ Divided: Antiblackness as Corporate Vice

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Bringing the wisdom of generations of black Catholics into conversation with latest scholarly accounts of racism, Christ Divided diagnoses “antiblackness supremacy” as a corporate vice that inhabits the body of Christ. Antiblackness supremacy operates as a unique type of oppression: it arises from the enduring association of blackness with slave status and plays a foundational role in processes of racialization and racial hierarchy in the USA. Actually, since non-black people regularly amass power on the expense of black people, much of “white supremacy” is more as it should be described as “antiblackness supremacy.”

In addition to introducing a new framework of racial analysis, this book proposes a new approach to virtue ethics. Anti-blackness supremacy inhabits not just the biased mind and the individual body, it also resides in the corporate body of the church. But because of the porosity of Christ’s body, the church can’t reform itself from within. Antiblackness supremacy has twisted even baptism and the Eucharist in its image. In response, the theory of corporate virtue outlined here contemplates the conditions under which the church’s corporately vicious and necessarily porous body can also be made to “do the right thing.”

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