Podcasts
Interview on Race in American Religion and Culture with Amaryah Armstrong
Amaryah Shaye Armstrong is Assistant professor of Race in American Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech University. Her research combines the fields of Black Studies, American Studies, Political Theology, and Continental Philosophy of Religion in order to explore the relationship between religion and the reproduction of race in the aftermath of the European colonization of the Americas. In our conversation, we talk about Armstrong’s academic background and the relationship between concepts of Christian peoplehood, racism, and the language of reproduction. We also discuss the great historian of the black radical tradition Cedric Robinson, the protest movement against antiblackness that erupted across American cities over the last year, and being a worker in the contemporary University under conditions of capitalism.
Books and Articles referenced in the podcast:
- Amaryah Armstrong, “Of Flesh and Spirit: Race, Reproduction, and Sexual Difference in the Turn to Paul” https://jcrt.org/archives/16.2/Armstrong.pdf
- Amaryah Armstrong, “Christian Order and Racial Order: What Cedric Robinson can teach us today” https://christiansocialism.com/cedric-robinson-racial-order-christianity-socialism/
- Amaryah Armstrong, “Unsovereign Love: Thoughts on Race, Sex, and Undoing an Evangelical Education of Feeling” https://therevealer.org/unsovereign-love-thoughts-on-race-sex-and-undoing-an-evangelical-education-of-feeling/
- Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, https://uncpress.org/book/9780807848296/black-marxism/
- Cedric Robinson, The Terms of Order: Political Science and the Myth of Leadership, https://uncpress.org/book/9781469628219/the-terms-of-order/
- Hortense Spillers, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book, https://www.jstor.org/stable/464747?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
- Deloris Williams, Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God Talk, https://www.orbisbooks.com/sisters-in-the-wilderness.html