Traci C West
Biographic Data
| ID | 4972308 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Traci C West |
| GIVEN NAMES | Traci C |
| FAMILY NAME | West |
| SIGNATURE | WEST T C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Drew Theological School, Madison, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Notes on Defying Justice as Just Us
Drawing upon a gender violence methodological lens helps to reveal the role of chaos and confusion in generating cycles of social injustice that serve dominant interests such as Christian White supremacy. This lens requires our attention to combined personal and political costs in the betrayals of community members targeted and sacrificed as well as to the restorative response that any adequate expression of justice-making must include. Based on …
Is a Womanist a Black Feminist? Marking the Distinctions and Defying Them: A Black Feminist Response
IV. Garnering Methods of Resistance
II. Paying Attention to Women’s Anguish
I. Listening to Women’s Stories
III. Deciphering the Role of Society
Select Bibliography
Disruption
To examine the institutional ethics of the church there must be a focus on how the mutually reinforcing interplay of cultural and political values of white supremacy and heteropatriarchy are so effectively perpetuated by Christians through their church bodies. Analysis of this institutional process includes an illustration from the United Methodist Church 2019 quadrennial global assembly and a moment of LGBTQI protest against the Church’s enactme…
Embracing Conflict
Embracing Conflict Traci C. West (bio) To address the proliferation of white supremacist habits in the “white space” of Feminist Studies in Religion (FSR) through a genuinely transformative process, we need more conflict. How can we increase honest and probing conflict articulated in FSR’s publications, organizing, and leadership contexts? This seems crucial for figuring out how a “feminist institution that has a long and solid history of involve…
Solidarity and Defiant Spirituality: Africana Lessons on Religion, Racism, and Ending Gender Violence
This book embraces a transnational Africana perspective as crucial for conceptualizing an end to gender violence in the United States. Locating herself as an African American Christian leader, Traci West candidly criticizes religious responses to black women victim-survivors in the U.S. as too culturally insular and complacent. Then, in an investigation stressing the role of religion and anti-black racism West explores a decidedly expansive and a…
Ending gender violence: An antiracist intersectional agenda for churches
Churches can do better than offering hypocritical messages about tolerating gender-based intimate abuse and violence in family, church, and community life. Churches need culturally disruptive approaches that enable them to address this abuse and violence more consistently and systemically. Influential heteropatriarchal church values that promote deceptive theological generalizations about the inescapability of human suffering and sinfulness can m…
The Prophets and Ethics
Christian ethicists and social justice activists regularly draw upon blistering critiques of religious and political hypocrisy and corruption found in the Hebrew Bible prophets. This chapter concentrates on distinctive methods of ethicists and activists for appropriating and engaging them. Three differing approaches are explored. Walter Rauschenbusch considered the prophets to be essential to Christian moral history. Emilie Townes constructs Afri…
Creating Ourselves: African Americans and Hispanic Americans on Popular Culture and Religious Expression
Gendered Legacies of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Leadership
This essay is a critical reflection on issues of gender within the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.'s leadership, exploring the implications for contemporary social activist church leaders. It focuses on notions of maleness found in scholarly interpretive narratives about King and descriptions in biographies of King and of other civil rights movement leaders. The significance of his maleness when assessing King's leadership is discussed in relati…
Roundtable Discussion: Must i be Womanist?: Response
Womanist scholars of religion have helped to create a place at the table for black women scholars and black women's studies within the Eurocentric disciplinary traditions of a male-dominated religious academy. Any conversation about the strengths and weaknesses of womanist religious studies must acknowledge a debt of gratitude to womanist pioneers. There now exists a substantive body of religious scholarship about black women's lives and religiou…
The Policing of Poor Black Women’s Sexual Reproduction
In popular political rhetoric about social problems in this nation, the sexuality of poor black single mothers who receive welfare is labeled a major threat that endangers the moral health of society. Politicians, academics, and media pundits who contribute to the shaping of public policy often make dramatic claims that stigmatize the procreation of poor black single moms. Thus, the nature of poor black female identity comes to be seen as an appr…
Wounds of the Spirit: Black Women, Violence, and Resistance Ethics
In Wounds of the Spirit, Traci West employs first person accounts-from slave narratives to contemporary interviews to Tina Turner's autobiography-to document a historical legacy of violence against black women in the United States. West, a black feminist Christian ethicist, situates spiritual matters within a discussion of the psycho-social impact of intimate assault against African American women. Distinctive for its treatment of the role of the…
More Than Victims: Battered Women, the Syndrome Society, and the Law
Donald Downs offers an analysis of the injustices behind the logic of battered woman syndrome, concluding that this very logic harms those it is trying to protect. The text argues that battered women often adopt heroic means of survival, retaining accurate, reasoned perceptions concerning the actions and intentions of their abusers, and to portray battered women as lacking reason and will undermines otherwise valid self-defence claims and hurts w…
More Than Victims: Battered Women, the Syndrome Society, and the Law
Donald Downs offers an analysis of the injustices behind the logic of battered woman syndrome, concluding that this very logic harms those it is trying to protect. The text argues that battered women often adopt heroic means of survival, retaining accurate, reasoned perceptions concerning the actions and intentions of their abusers, and to portray battered women as lacking reason and will undermines otherwise valid self-defence claims and hurts w…
More Than Victims: Battered Women, the Syndrome Society, and the Law
Donald Downs offers an analysis of the injustices behind the logic of battered woman syndrome, concluding that this very logic harms those it is trying to protect. The text argues that battered women often adopt heroic means of survival, retaining accurate, reasoned perceptions concerning the actions and intentions of their abusers, and to portray battered women as lacking reason and will undermines otherwise valid self-defence claims and hurts w…
Wounds of the Spirit: Black Women, Violence, and Resistance Ethics
In Wounds of the Spirit, Traci West employs first person accounts-from slave narratives to contemporary interviews to Tina Turner's autobiography-to document a historical legacy of violence against black women in the United States. West, a black feminist Christian ethicist, situates spiritual matters within a discussion of the psycho-social impact of intimate assault against African American women. Distinctive for its treatment of the role of the…
The Policing of Poor Black Women’s Sexual Reproduction
In popular political rhetoric about social problems in this nation, the sexuality of poor black single mothers who receive welfare is labeled a major threat that endangers the moral health of society. Politicians, academics, and media pundits who contribute to the shaping of public policy often make dramatic claims that stigmatize the procreation of poor black single moms. Thus, the nature of poor black female identity comes to be seen as an appr…
Roundtable Discussion: Must i be Womanist?: Response
Womanist scholars of religion have helped to create a place at the table for black women scholars and black women's studies within the Eurocentric disciplinary traditions of a male-dominated religious academy. Any conversation about the strengths and weaknesses of womanist religious studies must acknowledge a debt of gratitude to womanist pioneers. There now exists a substantive body of religious scholarship about black women's lives and religiou…
Gendered Legacies of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Leadership
This essay is a critical reflection on issues of gender within the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.'s leadership, exploring the implications for contemporary social activist church leaders. It focuses on notions of maleness found in scholarly interpretive narratives about King and descriptions in biographies of King and of other civil rights movement leaders. The significance of his maleness when assessing King's leadership is discussed in relati…
Creating Ourselves: African Americans and Hispanic Americans on Popular Culture and Religious Expression
The Prophets and Ethics
Christian ethicists and social justice activists regularly draw upon blistering critiques of religious and political hypocrisy and corruption found in the Hebrew Bible prophets. This chapter concentrates on distinctive methods of ethicists and activists for appropriating and engaging them. Three differing approaches are explored. Walter Rauschenbusch considered the prophets to be essential to Christian moral history. Emilie Townes constructs Afri…
Solidarity and Defiant Spirituality: Africana Lessons on Religion, Racism, and Ending Gender Violence
This book embraces a transnational Africana perspective as crucial for conceptualizing an end to gender violence in the United States. Locating herself as an African American Christian leader, Traci West candidly criticizes religious responses to black women victim-survivors in the U.S. as too culturally insular and complacent. Then, in an investigation stressing the role of religion and anti-black racism West explores a decidedly expansive and a…
Ending gender violence: An antiracist intersectional agenda for churches
Churches can do better than offering hypocritical messages about tolerating gender-based intimate abuse and violence in family, church, and community life. Churches need culturally disruptive approaches that enable them to address this abuse and violence more consistently and systemically. Influential heteropatriarchal church values that promote deceptive theological generalizations about the inescapability of human suffering and sinfulness can m…
Is a Womanist a Black Feminist? Marking the Distinctions and Defying Them: A Black Feminist Response
IV. Garnering Methods of Resistance
II. Paying Attention to Women’s Anguish
I. Listening to Women’s Stories
III. Deciphering the Role of Society
Select Bibliography
Disruption
To examine the institutional ethics of the church there must be a focus on how the mutually reinforcing interplay of cultural and political values of white supremacy and heteropatriarchy are so effectively perpetuated by Christians through their church bodies. Analysis of this institutional process includes an illustration from the United Methodist Church 2019 quadrennial global assembly and a moment of LGBTQI protest against the Church’s enactme…
Embracing Conflict
Embracing Conflict Traci C. West (bio) To address the proliferation of white supremacist habits in the “white space” of Feminist Studies in Religion (FSR) through a genuinely transformative process, we need more conflict. How can we increase honest and probing conflict articulated in FSR’s publications, organizing, and leadership contexts? This seems crucial for figuring out how a “feminist institution that has a long and solid history of involve…
Notes on Defying Justice as Just Us
Drawing upon a gender violence methodological lens helps to reveal the role of chaos and confusion in generating cycles of social injustice that serve dominant interests such as Christian White supremacy. This lens requires our attention to combined personal and political costs in the betrayals of community members targeted and sacrificed as well as to the restorative response that any adequate expression of justice-making must include. Based on …
Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Politics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)