The Death of Race

Brian Bantum says that race is not merely an intellectual category or a biological fact. Much like the incarnation, it is a word made flesh, the confluence of various powers that allow some to organize and dominate the lives of others. In this way, racism is a deeply theological problem, one that is central to the Christian story and one that plays out daily in the United States and throughout the world. In The Death of Race , Bantum argues that our attempts to heal racism will not succeed until