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OverviewAny serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to reframe the way we talk about racism and antiracism. There are two contemporary approaches to antiracist theory and practice. The first emphasizes racial identity to the exclusion of political economy, making racialized life in America illegible. This approach's prevalence, in the academy and beyond, now rises to the level of established doctrine. The second approach views racial identity as the function of a particular political economy--what is called Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jonathan Tran (Professor of Theology and Ethics, Professor of Theology and Ethics, Baylor University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 15.70cm Weight: 0.508kg ISBN: 9780197617915ISBN 10: 0197617913 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 05 January 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order ![]() Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsThis compelling book is a singular intervention in our current reckoning with racism and contemporary debates about antiracism. At once provocative and measured, Tran's book is a feat: a careful argument that is also a bombshell. He shows us the insidious way capitalism breeds competition amongst the exploited, but also how Christian theology, in conversation with Marxism, imagines a hope beyond racial capitalism. I am still reeling from reading this. * James K.A. Smith, Professor of philosophy, Calvin University, author of On the Road with Saint Augustine and The Nicene Option: An Incarnational Phenomenology * This well-researched book demonstrates that discourse on race and racism that fails to attend to class and political economy is only skin deep. Combining rich ethnographic data and vigorous theoretic discussion, Dr. Tran advances a theory of racial capitalist economy to interpret Asian American experience and their Christian practices that is innovative and compelling. It deserves to be widely read and debated! * Kwok Pui-lan, Candler School of Theology, Emory University * Jonathan Tran's remarkable book breaks new conceptual ground in the analysis of 'race', racism and religion in the United States by providing a fearless critique of how standard scripts about racial 'identity', even when enunciated by those who claim to be fighting injustice most emphatically, simply reinstantiate what they are claiming to overcome. The problem is that these well-meaning discourses obscure what most needs exposure: the economic substructure which keeps the problematic core racial binary in place, and at the same time relegates those who do not conform to that binary (specifically, 'Asian Americans') into a strange place of collusion or further marginalization. But Tran is no standard neo-Marxist, either: through a rich use of comparative ethnographic studies he is able to show how Christianity's core meanings, when truly activated politically, can still change these narratives and also their outcomes. * Sarah Coakley, Australian Catholic University * Tran's theoretical analysis of Asian American life through the lens of racial capitalism gains real empirical density by foregrounding the oral histories of the Delta Chinese of Mississippi and of Asian American coalitions working in black communities of San Francisco. An essential read for Asian American studies in religion and theology, and for race theory approaches open to reflections on 'racial capitalism.' * Mark Lewis Taylor, Author of The Theological and the Political: On the Weight of the World * An engaging, interdisciplinary, and energetic reconsideration of Asian American identity, racial capitalism, and Christian theology, the book is highly recommended to readers interested in broader questions of race, religion, and political economy. * Rachel Haejin Lim, Sociology of Religion * This is an excellent read for all whose research intersects between Christian theology, sociology of religion, qualitative research, and Asian American studies. * Calida Chu, International Journal of Public Theology * This compelling book is a singular intervention in our current reckoning with racism and contemporary debates about antiracism. At once provocative and measured, Tran's book is a feat: a careful argument that is also a bombshell. He shows us the insidious way capitalism breeds competition amongst the exploited, but also how Christian theology, in conversation with Marxism, imagines a hope beyond racial capitalism. I am still reeling from reading this. * James K.A. Smith, Professor of philosophy, Calvin University, author of On the Road with Saint Augustine and The Nicene Option: An Incarnational Phenomenology * This well-researched book demonstrates that discourse on race and racism that fails to attend to class and political economy is only skin deep. Combining rich ethnographic data and vigorous theoretic discussion, Dr. Tran advances a theory of racial capitalist economy to interpret Asian American experience and their Christian practices that is innovative and compelling. It deserves to be widely read and debated! * Kwok Pui-lan, Candler School of Theology, Emory University * Jonathan Tran's remarkable book breaks new conceptual ground in the analysis of 'race', racism and religion in the United States by providing a fearless critique of how standard scripts about racial 'identity', even when enunciated by those who claim to be fighting injustice most emphatically, simply reinstantiate what they are claiming to overcome. The problem is that these well-meaning discourses obscure what most needs exposure: the economic substructure which keeps the problematic core racial binary in place, and at the same time relegates those who do not conform to that binary (specifically, 'Asian Americans') into a strange place of collusion or further marginalization. But Tran is no standard neo-Marxist, either: through a rich use of comparative ethnographic studies he is able to show how Christianity's core meanings, when truly activated politically, can still change these narratives and also their outcomes. * Sarah Coakley, Australian Catholic University * Tran's theoretical analysis of Asian American life through the lens of racial capitalism gains real empirical density by foregrounding the oral histories of the Delta Chinese of Mississippi and of Asian American coalitions working in black communities of San Francisco. An essential read for Asian American studies in religion and theology, and for race theory approaches open to reflections on 'racial capitalism.' * Mark Lewis Taylor, Author of The Theological and the Political: On the Weight of the World * An engaging, interdisciplinary, and energetic reconsideration of Asian American identity, racial capitalism, and Christian theology, the book is highly recommended to readers interested in broader questions of race, religion, and political economy. * Rachel Haejin Lim, Sociology of Religion * This is an excellent read for all whose research intersects between Christian theology, sociology of religion, qualitative research, and Asian American studies. * Calida Chu, International Journal of Public Theology * This compelling book is a singular intervention in our current reckoning with racism and contemporary debates about antiracism. At once provocative and measured, Tran's book is a feat: a careful argument that is also a bombshell. He shows us the insidious way capitalism breeds competition amongst the exploited, but also how Christian theology, in conversation with Marxism, imagines a hope beyond racial capitalism. I am still reeling from reading this. * James K.A. Smith, Professor of philosophy, Calvin University, author of On the Road with Saint Augustine and The Nicene Option: An Incarnational Phenomenology * This well-researched book demonstrates that discourse on race and racism that fails to attend to class and political economy is only skin deep. Combining rich ethnographic data and vigorous theoretic discussion, Dr. Tran advances a theory of racial capitalist economy to interpret Asian American experience and their Christian practices that is innovative and compelling. It deserves to be widely read and debated! * Kwok Pui-lan, Candler School of Theology, Emory University * Jonathan Tran's remarkable book breaks new conceptual ground in the analysis of 'race', racism and religion in the United States by providing a fearless critique of how standard scripts about racial 'identity', even when enunciated by those who claim to be fighting injustice most emphatically, simply reinstantiate what they are claiming to overcome. The problem is that these well-meaning discourses obscure what most needs exposure: the economic substructure which keeps the problematic core racial binary in place, and at the same time relegates those who do not conform to that binary (specifically, 'Asian Americans') into a strange place of collusion or further marginalization. But Tran is no standard neo-Marxist, either: through a rich use of comparative ethnographic studies he is able to show how Christianity's core meanings, when truly activated politically, can still change these narratives and also their outcomes. * Sarah Coakley, Australian Catholic University * Tran's theoretical analysis of Asian American life through the lens of racial capitalism gains real empirical density by foregrounding the oral histories of the Delta Chinese of Mississippi and of Asian American coalitions working in black communities of San Francisco. An essential read for Asian American studies in religion and theology, and for race theory approaches open to reflections on 'racial capitalism.' * Mark Lewis Taylor, Author of The Theological and the Political: On the Weight of the World * This is an excellent read for all whose research intersects between Christian theology, sociology of religion, qualitative research, and Asian American studies. * Calida Chu, International Journal of Public Theology * This compelling book is a singular intervention in our current reckoning with racism and contemporary debates about antiracism. At once provocative and measured, Tran's book is a feat: a careful argument that is also a bombshell. He shows us the insidious way capitalism breeds competition amongst the exploited, but also how Christian theology, in conversation with Marxism, imagines a hope beyond racial capitalism. I am still reeling from reading this. * James K.A. Smith, Professor of philosophy, Calvin University, author of On the Road with Saint Augustine and The Nicene Option: An Incarnational Phenomenology * This well-researched book demonstrates that discourse on race and racism that fails to attend to class and political economy is only skin deep. Combining rich ethnographic data and vigorous theoretic discussion, Dr. Tran advances a theory of racial capitalist economy to interpret Asian American experience and their Christian practices that is innovative and compelling. It deserves to be widely read and debated! * Kwok Pui-lan, Candler School of Theology, Emory University * Jonathan Tran's remarkable book breaks new conceptual ground in the analysis of 'race', racism and religion in the United States by providing a fearless critique of how standard scripts about racial 'identity', even when enunciated by those who claim to be fighting injustice most emphatically, simply reinstantiate what they are claiming to overcome. The problem is that these well-meaning discourses obscure what most needs exposure: the economic substructure which keeps the problematic core racial binary in place, and at the same time relegates those who do not conform to that binary (specifically, 'Asian Americans') into a strange place of collusion or further marginalization. But Tran is no standard neo-Marxist, either: through a rich use of comparative ethnographic studies he is able to show how Christianity's core meanings, when truly activated politically, can still change these narratives and also their outcomes. * Sarah Coakley, Australian Catholic University * Tran's theoretical analysis of Asian American life through the lens of racial capitalism gains real empirical density by foregrounding the oral histories of the Delta Chinese of Mississippi and of Asian American coalitions working in black communities of San Francisco. An essential read for Asian American studies in religion and theology, and for race theory approaches open to reflections on 'racial capitalism.' * Mark Lewis Taylor, Author of The Theological and the Political: On the Weight of the World * This well-researched book demonstrates that discourse on race and racism that fails to attend to class and political economy is only skin deep. Combining rich ethnographic data and vigorous theoretic discussion, Dr. Tran advances a theory of racial capitalist economy to interpret Asian American experience and their Christian practices that is innovative and compelling. It deserves to be widely read and debated! * Kwok Pui-lan, Candler School of Theology, Emory University * Jonathan Tran's remarkable book breaks new conceptual ground in the analysis of 'race', racism and religion in the United States by providing a fearless critique of how standard scripts about racial 'identity', even when enunciated by those who claim to be fighting injustice most emphatically, simply reinstantiate what they are claiming to overcome. The problem is that these well-meaning discourses obscure what most needs exposure: the economic substructure which keeps the problematic core racial binary in place, and at the same time relegates those who do not conform to that binary (specifically, 'Asian Americans') into a strange place of collusion or further marginalization. But Tran is no standard neo-Marxist, either: through a rich use of comparative ethnographic studies he is able to show how Christianity's core meanings, when truly activated politically, can still change these narratives and also their outcomes. * Sarah Coakley, Australian Catholic University * Tran's theoretical analysis of Asian American life through the lens of racial capitalism gains real empirical density by foregrounding the oral histories of the Delta Chinese of Mississippi and of Asian American coalitions working in black communities of San Francisco. An essential read for Asian American studies in religion and theology, and for race theory approaches open to reflections on 'racial capitalism.' * Mark Lewis Taylor, Author of The Theological and the Political: On the Weight of the World * Author InformationJonathan Tran is Professor of Theology and Ethics at Baylor University where he holds the George W. Baines Chair of Religion. 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