Disordered

Archetypes of race loom large within the Western imagination. The Black population, in particular, has often been pictured as inherently disordered, and their presence thought to have a disordering effect--indeed, their presence has been seen as a threat to civilized society. It is this perceived threat of blackness that has fueled America’s long history of discrimination and oppression. At the heart of this racialized way of seeing is a significant theological assertion: that one’s internal sta