Christ Divided: Antiblackness as Corporate Vice

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Bringing the wisdom of generations of black Catholics into conversation with contemporary scholarly accounts of racism, Christ Divided diagnoses "antiblackness supremacy" as a corporate vice that inhabits the body of Christ. To truly understand racial inequality, theologians must acknowledge the existence of "antiblackness supremacy" and recognize its uniquely foundational role in prevailing processes of racialization and racial hierarchy. In addition to introducing a new framework of racial analysis, this book proposes a new approach to virtue ethics. The theory of corporate virtue outlined here provides a framework through which to evaluate the habits of antiblackness supremacy and propose new ones-to be made to "do the right thing." Christ Divided......Page 2 Christ Divided......Page 4 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 8 Preface......Page 10 Introduction......Page 14 Defining White Supremacy and Antiblackness Supremacy......Page 38 Antiblackness and World History......Page 48 The Nearly Global Afterlife of Black Slavery......Page 78 The Spatial Afterlife of Slavery in the Contemporary United States......Page 100 Diagnosing the Corporate Habits of Antiblackness Supremacy......Page 124 Inverting Virtue......Page 126 The Catholic Corporate Habits of Antiblackness in the Era of Chattel Slavery......Page 142 Racial Segregation as a Corporate Habit of Antiblackness Supremacy in the Body of Christ......Page 160 Nonwhiteness Will Not Save Us: The Persistence of Antiblackness in the “Brown” Twenty-First Century......Page 184 Toward a Theory of Corporate Virtue and Vice......Page 214 Antiblackness Supremacy and the Sacraments of Initiation......Page 224 Baptism and the Eucharist as Habits of Antiblackness Supremacy......Page 226 Corporate Vices, Ecclesial Consequences: Poking Holes in the Ecclesiology of “Battened-Down Hatches”......Page 242 Re-habituating the Corporate Body of Christ......Page 258 Real Food for Real Bodies: From Sacramental Optimism to Sacramental Realism......Page 260 Dismantling Antiblackness Supremacy......Page 274 Bibliography......Page 302 Index......Page 336