Tobin Miller Shearer - Enter the River: Healing Steps from White Privilege Toward Racial Reconciliation
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Jody Miller Shearer explores definitions of prejudice and racism, the different effects of racism on white people and people of color, affirmative action, and many other issues. 216 pages.
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Shearer, Jody Miller, 1965 Enter the river : healing steps from white privilege toward racial reconciliation / Jody Miller Shearer. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8361-3660-8 (alk. paper) 1. Racism. 2. Race relationsReligious aspectsMennonites. I. Title. HT1521.S435 1994 305.8dc20 93-40702
The paper used in this publication is recycled and meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
ENTER THE RIVER Copyright 1994 by Herald Press, Scottdale, Pa. 15683 Published simultaneously in Canada by Herald Press, Waterloo, Ont. N2L 6H7. All rights reserved Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 93-40702 International Standard Book Number: 0-8361-3660-8 Printed in the United States of America Book and cover design by Gwen M. Stamm Cover photo by Crystal Watts 04 03 02 01 00 99 10 9 8 7 6 5 4
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To Cheryl Miller Shearer, who believed that I could.
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Contents
Foreword
by Michael Banks
9
Preface and Acknowledgments
11
1. Why Be Concerned about Racism?
19
2. Why Is Talking about Racism So Hard?
33
3. What Is Prejudice?
45
4. What Is Racism?
54
5. How Does Racism Afflict People of Color?
72
6. How Does Racism Afflict White People?
86
7. What Does It Mean to Be White?
102
8. How Can We Celebrate Our Cultures?
114
9. What Does This Mean for the Church?
124
10. What About Affirmative Action?
140
11. So What Can We Do About Racism?
154
Afterword
173
Appendix A: A Church of Many Peoples Confronts Racism
177
Appendix B: Ten Ways to Make a Third-World Person Lose Effectiveness in an Organization
181
Notes
183
Resource List
191
Scripture Index
208
Index
209
The Author
214
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Foreword
Enter the River is both an invitation and a challenge. The book engages readers regardless of which bank of the ethnic river they may be standing on. Through poignant stories and lucid insights, a personal call to a faithful ministry of reconciliation emerges.
The practical biblical discernment that accompanies strategies for change provides guidance to navigate the subtle currents of covert racism that pollute our beliefs, values, and attitudes. The book encouraged me with its prophetic edgean edge aimed at dismantling the false assumptions reinforced by institutional racism and its cultural handmaidens.
Written by an Anglo-American to Anglo-Americans, Enter the River carries the clear perspective and deep compassion of one who has awakened to the unjust privileges accorded whites in North America and calls others to awaken as well.
Although this work aims to challenge the mind-set of those accustomed (whether consciously or not) to white privilege, it beckons all to the healing process. This is because the impact of such an erroneous point of view affects everyone at some level.
Through entering the currents of this book, I further processed both ways the system of white privilege deepens the harmful antagonism between races and ways the gospel offers
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