While We Run this Race

Confronting the Power of Racism in a Southern Church

• Author(s): Nibs Stroupe, Inez Fleming,
• Publisher: Orbis Books
• Pages: 174
• ISBN_10: 1570750009
  ISBN_13: 9781570750007
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) , Religion / Christian Living / Social Issues , Religion / Christian Theology / General , Religion / Christianity / Presbyterian , Social Science / Discrimination , Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations ,

Description:... In this challenging, ultimately hopeful book, Nibs Stroupe, the white pastor of multi-cultural Oakhurst Presbyterian Church in Decatur, Georgia, grapples with this question: why, so long after the Civil Rights movement has become part of American history, does racism still pervade society? Race, writes Stroupe, represents a social and political chasm that continues to divide and entrap all Americans. He steadfastly maintains that acknowledging the power of the system of race throughout society - in our schools, courts, prisons, and housing - is the necessary first step to dismantling it. Stroupe convinces us that although racism is powerful, it is not inexorable. It can be overcome. Adding her voice is Inez Fleming, a black elder at Oakhurst, who tells the story of tears and laughter within the congregation as blacks and whites struggle together, creating an extraordinary church family.