Katie Walker Grimes
Biographic Data
| ID | 9325009 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katie Walker Grimes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katie Walker |
| FAMILY NAME | Grimes |
| SIGNATURE | GRIMES K W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fugitive Saints
Birtherism” and Anti-Blackness
The first black President of the United States, Barack Obama, entered office on a wave of racial optimism. But rather than transcending the United States’ racialized history, Obama's presidency has in a sense “outed” it, exposing this history's anti-Islamic origins. This article establishes a link between anti-blackness and the Islamophobic reaction to his election: late medieval and early modern European Christians could classify newly Africaniz…
Fugitive Saints
How should the Catholic Church remember the sins of its saints? This question proves particularly urgent in the case of those saints who were canonized due to their relation to black slavery. Today, many of their racial virtues seem like racial vices. This book proposes black fugitivity, as both a historical practice and an interpretive principle, to be a strategy by which the church can build new hagiographical habits. Rather than searching insi…
Birtherism” and Anti-Blackness
The first black President of the United States, Barack Obama, entered office on a wave of racial optimism. But rather than transcending the United States’ racialized history, Obama's presidency has in a sense “outed” it, exposing this history's anti-Islamic origins. This article establishes a link between anti-blackness and the Islamophobic reaction to his election: late medieval and early modern European Christians could classify newly Africaniz…
Fugitive Saints
Birtherism” and Anti-Blackness
The first black President of the United States, Barack Obama, entered office on a wave of racial optimism. But rather than transcending the United States’ racialized history, Obama's presidency has in a sense “outed” it, exposing this history's anti-Islamic origins. This article establishes a link between anti-blackness and the Islamophobic reaction to his election: late medieval and early modern European Christians could classify newly Africaniz…
Fugitive Saints
How should the Catholic Church remember the sins of its saints? This question proves particularly urgent in the case of those saints who were canonized due to their relation to black slavery. Today, many of their racial virtues seem like racial vices. This book proposes black fugitivity, as both a historical practice and an interpretive principle, to be a strategy by which the church can build new hagiographical habits. Rather than searching insi…
1579-1639 (2 works) · 1580-1654 (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Attributes (2 works) · Catholic church (2 works) · Christian hagiography (2 works) · Christian saints (2 works) · Christianity (2 works) · Christianity (2 works) · Claver, Pedro, Saint (2 works)