Thinking for the Sake of Thinking
With no apparent connection, two scholarly books reveal how established fields of study dealt with the push for racial revolution.
By Angela P. Dodson
Black Faith and Public Talk:
Critical Essays on James H. Cone’s Black Theology and Black Power
by Dwight N. Hopkins (Editor), $24.95,
Paperback, Baylor University Press
(August 2007), ISBN-10: 1602580138, ISBN-13: 978-1602580138, 262 pp.
Race Relations: A Critique
by Stephen Steinberg, $17.95, Paperback, Stanford University Press (September 2007), ISBN-10: 080475327X, ISBN-13: 978-0804753272, 208 pp.
It is merely a coincidence that these two books landed on my desk at the same time and that I read them in tandem. The more I read, the more similarities I saw and the more challenged I was by the ideas set forth.
