Religion of White Rage

Stephen C. Finley is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and African & African American Studies and Director of the African & African American Studies Program at Louisiana State University. He is co-editor of authored Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: “There Is a Mystery”… (with Margarita Guillory and Hugh Page Jr, Brill, 2014) and author of the monograph, In and Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam. Biko Mandela Gray is Assistant Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. He is the author of Black Life Matter: Blackness, Religion, and the Subject (Duke University Press, 2023). He is co-editor of The Religion of White Rage: White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). Lori Latrice Martin is Professor in the Department of Sociology and African and African American Studies at Louisiana State University. Dr. Martin is the author of numerous scholarly works. Martin's most recent publications include South Baton Rouge, Black Asset Poverty and the Enduring Racial Divide, Color Struck and Big Box Schools: Race, Education, and the Danger of the Wal-Martization of American Public Schools.

• Introduction"The Souls of White Folk": Race, Affect, and Religion in the Religion of White RageBiko Mandela Gray, Stephen C. Finley, Lori Latrice MartinPart I: White Religious Fervor and Contemporary American Politics1. "Make America Great Again": Racial Pathology, White Consolidation, and Melancholia in Trump’s AmericaStephen C. Finley 2. You Will Not Replace Us! An Exploration of Religio-Racial Identity in White NationalismDarrius Hills 3. "I AM that I AM": The Religion of White Rage, Great Migration Detroit, and the Ford Motor CompanyTerri Laws and Kimberly Enard 4. American (Un)Civil Religion, the Defense of the White Worker, and Responses to NFL ProtestsLori Latrice Martin 5. The Color of Belief: Black Social Christianity, White Evangelicalism, and Redbaiting the Religious Culture of the CIO in the Postwar SouthElizabeth Fones-Wolf and Ken Fones-Wolf 6. Constitutional Whiteness: Class, Narcissism, and the Source of White RageJason Jeffries Part II: White Religious Fervor, Religious Ideology, and White Identity7. KKK Christology: A Brief on White Class InsecurityPaul Easterling 8. Black People and White Mormon Rage: Examining Race, Religion, and Politics in ZionDarron Smith, Brenda G. Harris, and Melissa Flores 9. Anatomizing White Rage: "Race is My Religion!" and "White Genocide"Kate Temoney10. Exorcising Blackness: Calling the Cops as an Affective Performance of GenderBiko Mandela Gray 11. White Power Barbie and Other Figures of the Angry White WomanDanae Faulk12. Weaponizing Religion: A Document Analysis of the Religious Indoctrination of Slaves in Service of White Labor ElitesE. Anthony Muhammad13. The Religions of Black Resistance and White Rage: Interpenetrative Religious Practice in the 1963 Civil Rights Struggle in Danville, Virginia Tobin Miller Shearer ConclusionRace, Religion, and Labor Studies: The Way ForwardLori Latrice Martin, Stephen C. Finley, Biko Mandela Gray Notes; Bibliography; Index

The Religion of White Rage is an original contribution concerning the reasons millions of working-class white people are routinely mobilized by racist, sexist, capitalist exploiters to hate people of color, especially African Americans, who have never oppressed them but are seen as rivals for scarce jobs and resources. [...] Summing Up: Recommended. All levels.