Symposium on Anthony Pinn’s When Colorblindness Isn’t the Answer: Humanism and the Challenge of Race
Publication Date
1-19-2020
Description
In this essay, I address three themes that I find compelling in Anthony Pinn’s provocative book, When Colorblindness Isn’t the Answer: Humanism and the Challenge of Race: human flourishing, racialized existence, and religious functionalism. I then discuss the materialist implications of Pinn’s humanistic discourse, remaining curious about the nature of the “human” implied therein. Specifically, as a religious naturalist, I am concerned that contemporary humanistic discourse is capacious enough to achieve dimensions of racial justice that are often eclipsed by a specific modernist notion of the human.
Journal
Political Theology
Issue
Latest Issue (Jan-Feb. 2020)
Last Page
10
Department
Religious Studies
Link to Published Version
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1462317X.2020.1714156
Recommended Citation
https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2020.1714156