Blood Race (early) Theology asynchronous reading group / co…

I'm re-reading through J. Kameron Carter's Race, A Theological Account. https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195152791.001.0001/acprof-9780195152791

I thought this might be another opportunity for an asynchronous reading group.

Mostly because I know this text in particular is a close meeting point for so many of my friends both on here and at my school @FordhamTheology. And I would be more encouraged right now to dig in to this path with their expertise and also because I miss seminars with them.

Because this text is such a big deal, I've honestly been intimidated to approach it. I've also been distracted by other historical approaches closer to my research. For these reasons I honestly do not yet know a lot about the major moves of this text and its reception.

We can post those here too. I've embedded some in the tweets below. https://twitter.com/AGWilsonn/status/1237793273806311424

Notes on Carter's Race a Theological Account currently being processed in Knovigator

Why I care about blood has everything to do with unpacking what it means to be materially human. And I engage with similar sources as Carter: https://twitter.com/AGWilsonn/status/1237811368587378690?s=20

Curious to see how my hypotheses overlap (or don't): https://twitter.com/AGWilsonn/status/1226598927551664130?s=20

The key to this reading group is (as to all the others) is the word "asynchronous", which is to say, timeliness or just-in-timeliness. Come back to this when you've read the book: tomorrow... next year?

The key is also mediating a conversation between many archives, our own archives, and the archives inherent in each of these books.

Allen's Terminological Studies

The project I am working on: https://twitter.com/AGWilsonn/status/1189293336714252288

The focus of my project is on 2nd and 3rd century texts writing about blood in Greek and Latin, but some other readings that are conceptually related to my project:

Paul Goodman, Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998);

Susan Gillman, Blood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003).

Also William James Jenning's, Christian Imagination. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300171365/christian-imagination

You might be thinking: hey, we're following the other asynchronous reading groups, and you're not updating them! That's what makes them asynchronous. I'll get to them when I get to them. But if you respond to one I'll have to get to it. I can't help it. So that's the game.

https://twitter.com/AGWilsonn/status/1239936314151243784?s=20

https://twitter.com/AGWilsonn/status/1165683291493687297?s=20

https://twitter.com/AGWilsonn/status/1226149700824453121?s=20

https://twitter.com/AGWilsonn/status/1224916759364427776?s=20

https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3AAGWilsonn%20asynchronous&src=typed_query&f=live

!video Why I'm calling this a community garden. In reference to digital gardens.