Interrupting the Violence of Racial Identities: Lessons from Asian American Experience, the Parable of the Good Samaritan, and "Truth Force"

Sustained reflection on multiple expressions of Asian American experience directs us to the coercive logic of racial identities. Noticing this logic is critical to identifying the limitations of several strategies to resist and transcend racial injustice, including the demand for racial recognition....

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Main Author: Choi, Ki Joo (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Philosophy Documentation Center 2022
In: Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Year: 2022, Volume: 42, Issue: 1, Pages: 189-206
IxTheo Classification:HC New Testament
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBM Asia
KBQ North America
KDB Roman Catholic Church
NCD Political ethics
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Summary:Sustained reflection on multiple expressions of Asian American experience directs us to the coercive logic of racial identities. Noticing this logic is critical to identifying the limitations of several strategies to resist and transcend racial injustice, including the demand for racial recognition. Rereading the Parable of the Good Samaritan as one about the perils of racial identity and then taking cues from the nonviolent practice of truth force provide a blueprint that reimagines the liberative role racial identities can play.
ISSN:2326-2176
Contains:Enthalten in: Society of Christian Ethics, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics