{"id":5029,"date":"2020-11-03T02:21:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T02:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learn.elca.org\/jle\/?p=5029"},"modified":"2020-11-03T02:21:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T02:21:39","slug":"review-passionate-for-justice-ida-b-wells-as-prophet-for-our-time-by-catherine-meeks-and-nib-stroupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learn.elca.org\/jle\/review-passionate-for-justice-ida-b-wells-as-prophet-for-our-time-by-catherine-meeks-and-nib-stroupe\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Passionate for Justice: Ida B. Wells as Prophet for Our Time, by Catherine Meeks and Nib Stroupe"},"content":{"rendered":"

[1] I would love to start my review by talking about the importance of\u00a0Passionate for Justice<\/em>\u00a0at \u201ca time like this,\u201d but that qualification immediately rings hollow for me.<\/p>\n

[2] Threat of danger is the traumatic, collective history and memory (and, too often, direct experience) that Black [1] and Brown people just\u00a0know<\/em>. To wit,\u00a0Passionate for Justice<\/em>\u00a0co-author Meeks, who is Black, says: \u201cAs I think back on it now, I understood that white people were dangerous.\u201d (24)\u00a0\u00a0As a Black person, I may not be able to articulate it, how I know it, or when I learned this any more than one is able to articulate other types of\u00a0culturally-transmitted\u00a0knowledge. I just\u00a0know<\/em>, and have always known. This is how the threat of violence registers in the psyches of Black and Brown people, meaning that a \u201ctime like this\u201d \u2013 a time of heightened racial awareness for some \u2013 is just everyday life for others.<\/p>\n

[3] Being African American during the lifetime of Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was akin to living in an apartheid state. Freedom of movement, education, housing, work, and relationships were all dictated by skin color. Choosing to defy those normative restrictions could lead to violence \u2013 up to and including lynching. Wells is perhaps best known for speaking out against the grassroots domestic terror campaign of lynching. She forged a rich professional life as a teacher, organizer, speaker, syndicated newspaper columnist, newspaper owner, and co-founder of the NAACP.<\/p>\n

[4] Womanist Christian Ethicist Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon would delineate how Black women like Wells thrived despite the \u201ctridimensional phenomenon of race\/class\/gender oppression\u201d [2] in her\u00a0Black Womanist Ethics.\u00a0<\/em>Legal scholar Dr.\u00a0Kimberl\u00e9\u00a0Crenshaw would later create the term \u201cintersectionality\u201d [3] to succinctly describe overlapping oppressions affecting Black women\u2019s lives in the United States. [4] In\u00a0Passionate Justice,\u00a0<\/em>Meeks offers an extremely compelling instance of Black women\u2019s ethics as a means of survival in the midst of curtailed freedom and opportunity (141).<\/p>\n

[5] Refreshingly, in the first chapter the authors\u00a0lift up\u00a0Wells\u2019 capacity to define herself via a liberating theological anthropology. That is, she defined herself as a Black woman beloved of God \u2013 not as enslaved property, and not created by a god who condoned enslavement and white superiority. This is important as the book challenges the personal, civil, and theological structures that worked to dehumanize Wells during her life, and as we continue to recognize and denounce the structures that continue to deny the humanity of people today.<\/p>\n

[6] Even though Wells\u2019 granddaughter wrote a preface to this book, a reader seeking a more thorough dive into the life of Wells is better served elsewhere. Wells\u2019 life and work is covered in the first chapter; in other chapters the authors consider U.S. history, their own personal histories, and the future of race in the United States with Wells as their inspiration. That said, this book has merit for representing what it does portray of Wells\u2019 life accurately.<\/p>\n

[7] In\u00a0Passion for Justice\u00a0<\/em>the lives of Wells and co-authors Meeks and\u00a0Stroupe\u00a0are like roads, each with their own history\/scenery but still managing to cross and echo each other at points. Co-author Dr. Catherine Meeks is an African American woman and Distinguished Professor of Socio-Cultural Studies at Wesleyan University. Co-author Rev. Nibs\u00a0Stroupe\u00a0is a white man and retired pastor, author, and community social justice leader. Both were born in Arkansas.<\/p>\n

[8] We learn of suffrage through Wells\u2019 exclusion at a suffrage march; Wells is excluded because a Black woman marching for voting rights would offend southern white women. We learn about slavery through\u00a0Stroupe\u2019s\u00a0clear-eyed yet regrettable family history, and we are faced with the recurring contradiction between Christianity and chattel slavery. We see that Meeks even as a teen recognized the uneven and unjust power differential between white people and Black people. We are exposed to internalizing a sense of Black inferiority in childhood \u2013 the tradition of \u201cthe talk\u201d that black mothers give to their children to keep them utterly respectful lest a white person take their child\u2019s life over a slight or misunderstanding. All of this is American (specifically, United States) history, a history seldom discussed, and even more rarely discussed across racial lines.<\/p>\n

[9] This reflective writing style, as opposed to reportage, is one of several strengths of this book. Also, the writing style is easy and engaging without talking down to the reader. At 150 pages, it is compact. Still, it has enough theological and psychological interest (especially in chapters 5 and 6) for adult book groups while being a suitable way to introduce complex concepts like European discovery narratives, racial conciliation\/reconciliation, projection, reparations, and the \u201cextraordinary Negro\u201d to readers as young as high school age. There are also discussion\/reflection questions at the end of most chapters; the last chapter features the authors themselves answering questions that envision what Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. termed \u201cthe beloved community.\u201d<\/p>\n

[10] As much as I wholeheartedly believe in King\u2019s idea of Beloved Community (and also in what I think the authors are representing when they use that phrase), there is something just a little out of tune in asking if a woman is working towards a man\u2019s vision instead of her own vision (136). I wonder how the last chapter might have taken shape if it were conceived around a quote or phrase from Wells\u2019 own words, since the authors are operating on the theme of Wells as prophet. On the other hand, the authors assert that there was nothing in Wells\u2019 experience \u201c\u2026to allow her to hope that white people would begin to see black [sic] people as equal members\u2026\u201d (136, Meeks speaking).<\/p>\n

[11] I will end this review talking not about the final chapter, but the penultimate chapter. Equity, not diversity, is not only the issue of our time \u2013 it has always been the issue. The chapter \u201cOrder Our Steps\u201d (written by\u00a0Stroupe\u00a0for white Christians, and drawing on his knowledge of Wells\u2019 life and his own ministry career) contains steps white people can take to work toward equity, and the theological arguments that underpin that work: including recognizing the power and ubiquity of racist and white supremacist thought in ourselves and our institutions.\u00a0\u00a0The last question for further reflection in that chapter is: \u201cAre you interested in using these seven steps to help you combat the power of racism in your life?\u201d<\/p>\n

[12] Of course there was no way to have foreseen the exact events of June 2020. But if those events have made you more aware of racial inequities and want to combat the power of racism in your life, honest work with this book can lead you into fruitful conversation and change. Let this book and the life of Ida B. Wells be catalysts.<\/p>\n

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Notes:<\/p>\n

[1] In this book review, I am choosing to switch freely between the terms \u201cBlack\u201d and \u201cAfrican American\u201d as I refer to people like myself who have grown up in the United States.<\/p>\n

[2] Cannon, Katie Geneva.\u00a0Black Womanist Ethics.\u00a0<\/em>Atlanta, Ga.: Scholars Press, 1988. 68.<\/p>\n

[3] Crenshaw,\u00a0Kimberl\u00e9. \u201cDemarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics.\u201d\u00a0Stanford Law Review<\/em>\u00a0Vol. 43, No. 6 (Jul., 1991), pp. 1241-1299<\/p>\n

[4]\u00a0Stroupe, a white man, wrote in 2019 that \u201cIda Wells was \u2018intersectional\u2019 before it became cool and topical.\u201d (65) I would hope that, by now, Rev.\u00a0Stroupe\u00a0respects intersectionality as the persisting core of Black Women\u2019s experience in the United States \u2013 and, therefore, it has always been \u201ctopical\u201d for every member of the Body of Christ, in the sense of 1 Corinthians 12:12-31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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