Undivided : the quest for racial solidarity in an American church

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Undivided : the quest for racial solidarity in an American church / Hahrie Han.

Summary:

"In 2016, even as Ohio helped deliver victory to presidential candidate Donald Trump, Cincinnati voters also passed a ballot initiative for universal preschool. The margin was so large that many who elected Trump must have--paradoxically--also voted for the initiative: how could the same citizens support such philosophically disparate aims? What had convinced residents of this Midwestern, Rust Belt community to raise their own taxes to provide early childhood education focused on the poorest--and mostly Black--communities? When political scientist Hahrie Han set out to answer that question, her investigations led straight to an unlikely origin: the white-dominant evangelical megachurch Crossroads, where Pastor Chuck Mingo had delivered a sermon the prior year that set in motion a chain of surprising events. Raised in the Black church, Mingo felt called by God, he told Crossroads parishioners, to combat racial injustice, and to do it through the very church in which they were gathered. The result was Undivided, a faith-based program designed to foster antiracism and systemic change. The creators of Undivided recognized that any effort to combat racial injustice must move beyond recognizing and overcoming individual prejudices. Real change would have to be radical--from the very roots"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780593318867
ISBN: 0593318862
Physical Description: x, 285 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

General Note:: "This is a Borzoi Book." -- Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Author's note -- Introduction. Unlike anything I've ever seen -- Part one. Agitation. Podunk white people -- Polished concrete -- The brave journey -- The first week -- His head is burning -- Belonging -- Survey week -- My little rebellion -- The New Jim Crow -- The justice team -- Part two. Backlash. I told them I was black -- Who is in charge of you? -- Don't talk to me -- Who I am here -- No one trusts leadership -- Is this Martin's dream for me? -- Someone call Chuck -- Finding my power -- The bitch at the protest -- I knew you'd be here today -- Ordinary people -- Epilogue. Radical grace.