scholarly journals Difficult Dialogue: A tool towards racial harmony in a multicultural church

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelebogile T. Resane
Keyword(s):  
Racial Harmony ◽  
Difficult Dialogue

The Role of the Christian Church in Combating 21st Century Racism

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-231
Author(s):  
Clara M. Austin Iwuoha ◽  
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
God's Word ◽  
The World ◽  
Racial Harmony ◽  
Race And Religion ◽  
The Church

The demons of racism, bigotry, and prejudice found in society at large are also found in the Christian Church. Despite the very nature of Christianity that calls on Christians to be a counter voice in the world against evil, many have capitulated to various strains of racism. Some Christian denominations have begun to explore racism in the Church and have developed responses to addressing the issues in both the Church and the world. This article examines the historical context of race and religion in the Christian Church, and addresses the current efforts of some Christian denominations to become proactive in the struggle against racism. Jesus, in His Word, calls believers to pursue peace and oneness. The paper holds that racial harmony and racial unity are possible, but there are many false, old and d beliefs that will have to be crushed under the hammer of God's Word in order to get to a place of real peace.

“Companions”

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-418
Author(s):  
Scot Danforth
Keyword(s):  
Summer Camp ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
Disability Rights Movement ◽  
Racial Harmony ◽  
The University ◽  
Twentieth Century America

The documentary Crip Camp presents a 1970s summer camp for disabled youth as a place of friendship and political dialogues that spawned the American disability rights movement. The film also represented Camp Jened as a haven of racial harmony and inclusion. Jened was not the only American micro-community of disability solidarity and political possibilities that also involved questions of racial politics. Scholars have criticized disability activists and disability studies scholars for neglecting problems of racial oppression. This historical study examines three examples of empowering disability subcultures in twentieth century America: Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Warm Springs rehabilitation resort from the mid-1920s through the mid-1940s, the Rolling Quads at the University of California, Berkeley, in the late 1960s, and Camp Interdependence in California in the 1980s. The article interrogates the racial politics of these egalitarian communities.

Racial Harmony Training Program for Unit Leaders--Four-Hour Module on Development of Communication Skills. (A Program of Instruction)

1975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jr. McNeil ◽  
Rosario John ◽  
Joseph Jr. ◽  
Phillip Lyman ◽  
James A. Thomas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Racial Harmony

The Melting Pot of the Pacific

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen D. Wu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Asian Population ◽  
The United States ◽  
World War ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Racial Harmony

This chapter deals with the concept of Hawaiʻi as a racial paradise. In the 1920s and 1930s, intellectuals began to tout the islands' ethnically diverse composition—including the indigenous population, white settler colonists, and imported labor from Asia and other locales—as a Pacific melting pot free of the mainland's social taboos on intermingling. After World War II, the association of Hawaiʻi with racial harmony and tolerance received unprecedented national attention as Americans heatedly debated the question of whether or not the territory, annexed to the United States in 1898, should become a state. Statehood enthusiasts tagged the islands' majority Asian population, with its demonstrated capability of assimilation, as a forceful rationale for admission.

Commitment to Colour-Blindness

2019 ◽  
pp. 160-208
Author(s):  
Henrice Altink
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
World War ◽  
Civil And Political Rights ◽  
Colour Blindness ◽  
Racial Harmony ◽  
Second World

This chapter zooms in on colour blindness. Focussing on the racial domains of politics and criminal justice, it explores the correlation between race and colour and the enjoyment of civil and political rights. It argues that it was not just government inaction but also a lack of collective action from race-first and other groups why dark-skinned Jamaicans struggled more than others to exercise their civil and political rights. But while successive governments lacked the commitment to create a society where all Jamaicans irrespective of race and colour could enjoy their ‘fundamental rights’, they did their best to present Jamaica as a colour-blind nation. This chapter will also explore the purposes of this myth of racial harmony that was developed after the Second World War.

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