Jesus for Revolutionaries: An Introduction to Race, Social Justice, and Christianity

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

Years passed, and the Johnstons prospered. They moved to Keene, New Hampshire, and occupied a place of professional and social esteem in their community. They never said a word about their racial background—not even to their children, who absorbed the same toxic prejudices as their white peers. One day, Albert Jr. came home spouting some racial epithet, and his father took him aside to explain that he literally didn’t know what he was talking about. The revelation shook Albert Jr. A crisis of identity followed, and led, eventually, to his arrival in [Louis] De Rochemont’s office. Up until then, the family had maintained their secret. Albert Jr.’s story, if published, would blow their cover. The family agreed to face the consequences, and let the story proceed. The Johnstons would later tell the press that their magnanimous and tolerant neighbors never cared, that the Reader’s Digest story and its subsequent adaptations had no adverse effect. The fact is, the town did convulse, and whispered slurs behind the family’s back. Albert lost his practice, and eventually moved with Thyra to Hawaii, whose racial complexity made it a more hospitable place.

David Kalat, “Lost Boundaries (1949),” Turner Classic Movies, (February 2016). http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/81854/Lost-Boundaries/articles.html.

Jesus for Revolutionaries: An Introduction to Race, Social Justice, and Christianity

Jesus for Revolutionaries: An Introduction to Race, Social Justice, and Christianity

Robert Chao Romero
2013-10-07
262 pages
5.83 wide x 8.26 tall
Paperback ISBN: 9781304513984
eBook ISBN: 9781304531063

Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies
University of California, Los Angeles

Are you a “revolutionary”? Are you curious about exploring issues of race and social justice from a Christian perspective? This book by UCLA Professor and Pastor, Robert Chao Romero, is for you!

Topics covered include: a biblical framework for understanding poverty, race, and gender; undocumented immigration; politics; affirmative action; mixed race issues; Christian social justice pioneers; and, an introduction to the Christian world of social justice and community development.

Contents

Foreword
Preface
Introduction: Student Stories from the Revolution
1. God’s “Equal Protection Clause”: The Biblical Basis for Social justice
2. Jesus Was An Immigrant
3. “A Day Without A Mexican”: The Essential Economic Contributions of Undocumented Immigrants
4. “Secure Communities” Destroys Immigrant Families
5. God Loves “Dreamers”: Undocumented Youth and Comprehensive Immigration Reform
6. Jesus Invented Affirmative Action
7. The Case for Affirmative Action Today
8. Jesus and the Tea Party: Politics and Christianity
9. “Chino-Chicano“: A Biblical Framework for Diversity
10. Colorblindness, Structural Inequality, and Trayvon Martin
11. Gender
12. Class
13. Summing Up the Image of God: Neither Jew nor Gentile, Male nor Female, Slave nor Free
14. Manifest Destiny? The Historical Misrepresentation of Christianity
15. God Never Leaves Himself Without A Witness: MLK, Cesar Chavez, and other Social Justice Pioneers
16. Modern-Day Revolutionaries
17. Join the Revolution!
Appendix I: A Faith and Justice Manifesto
Appendix II: More Resources for the Budding Revolutionary—Books, Films, and Immigration
Appendix III: PraXis Groups and The 4-Part Study

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