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Summary:

A provocative examination of how religious practices of forgetting drive white Christian nationalism. The dual traumas of colonialism and slavery are still felt by Native Americans and African Americans as victims of ongoing violence toward people of color today. In The Feeling of Forgetting, John Corrigan calls attention to the trauma experienced by white Americans as perpetrators of this violence. By tracing memory's role in American Christianity, Corrigan shows how contemporary white Christian nationalism is motivated by a widespread effort to forget the role race plays in American society. White trauma, Corrigan argues, courses through American culture like an underground river that sometimes bursts forth into brutality, terrorism, and insurrection. Tracing the river to its source is a necessary first step toward healing.

Table of Contents:

• Intro
• Contents
• Introduction: Bad Memories
• 1. Colonial Legacies
• 2. Trauma
• 3. Emotion
• 4. Forgetting and Remembering
• 5. Anxiety, Erasure, and Affect
• 6. Race, Religion, and Nation
• Conclusion: The Feeling of Forgetting
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Index

Author/Creator:

Corrigan, John, 1952- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The feeling of forgetting: Christianity, race, and violence in America [by Corrigan, J.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: The Feeling of Forgetting [by Corrigan, J.] (Chicago : University of Chicago Press,c2023 — ISBN 9780226827636)

Subjects:

Racism — United States

White people — Race identity — United States

Church and social problems — United States

Collective memory — United States

Racism

White people — Race identity

White people

Church and social problems

Collective memory

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index
Description based on: Print version of record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

E184 .C677 2023eb

ISBNs:

022682764X
9780226827643 (electronic bk.)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2022052884

OCLC Numbers:

1382696158