The Feeling of Forgetting: Christianity, Race, and Violence in America

by John Corrigan

Book Overview

A provocative examination of how religious practices of forgetting drive white Christian nationalism.

The dual traumas of colonialism and slavery are still felt by Native Americans and African Americans as victims of ongoing violence toward people of color today. In The Feeling of Forgetting, John Corrigan calls attention to the trauma experienced by white Americans as perpetrators of this violence. By tracing memory's role...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226827658
• ISBN13: 9780226827650
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"