Reckoning and Repair
The Urgent Conversation About Race in the Black Christian Podcast Circuit
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22009259 |
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| Authors | Charles Laughlin (0000-0003-4030-2153, Loyola Marymount University, corresponding author), Corrina Laughlin |
| Year | 2021 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2162-3317 • E-ISSN: 2162-3317 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Libraries (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5210/spir.v2021i0.11967 |
| OpenAlex | W3200541907 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
This paper focuses on the Black Christian response to the 2020 uprisings against police brutality in the United States. Through a critical discourse analysis of three podcasts and interviews with podcasters, this paper argues that the Black, Christian podcast circuit is a counterpublic (Squires, 2002) that seeks to change Christian culture in America. I argue that it is the affordances of the medium of podcasting that make this counterpublic possible and that make it a potent force for changing the Christian conversation about race. These podcasters offer a portrait of a divided Christian church in need of repair and they make the case that repair is only possible through decolonizing the Christian faith, repenting and offering reparations for the racial trauma caused by white Christians, sparking Christians’ activist inclinations in favor of racial justice causes, and interrogating and correcting sexism within both the Black church and white evangelical culture
Affordance · African american · Art history · Black church · Christian Church · Christian faith · Christianity · Conversation · Criminology · Economic Justice · Faith · Police brutality · Political science · Portrait · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · Communication · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media · Religious studies
| Highly cited | No |
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