Katie Walker Grimes: 2 books
Fugitive Saints
Catholicism and the Politics of Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
How should the Catholic church remember the sins of its saints? This question proves particularly urgent in the case of those saints who were canonized due to their relation to black slavery. Today, many of their racial virtues seem like racial vices. This book proposes black fugitivity, as both a...
Christ Divided
Antiblackness as Corporate Vice
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
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. Antiblackness supremacy operates as a unique form of oppression:...