TY - JOUR
T1 - Confounded Identities
T2 - A Meditation on Race, Feminism, and Religious Studies in Times of White Supremacy
AU - Beliso-De Jesús, Aisha M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2018.
PY - 2018/5/17
Y1 - 2018/5/17
N2 - This article addresses the pervasiveness of white supremacy in American identity-thinking. Challenging the use of identity to structure unity platforms in academia, I advocate for Black-transnational feminist-queer strategies that demand coalition-based politics oriented around a transformative radical potential. Religious studies is used as an interdisciplinary case study to understand the problem of academic identity- thinking, where I show first, how white privilege is maintained in the "scholar-practitioner" divide, and second, how white supremacy is naturalized in identity-thinking. Eschewing relative or comparative approaches that reify identity-based logics, I move towards analytic and technical approaches that are productive of an activist-oriented decolonial stance. This gesture draws on the relationality, conflict, tension, power, and politics of studying racialized religious and spiritual subjects with an unapologetically transformative agenda.
AB - This article addresses the pervasiveness of white supremacy in American identity-thinking. Challenging the use of identity to structure unity platforms in academia, I advocate for Black-transnational feminist-queer strategies that demand coalition-based politics oriented around a transformative radical potential. Religious studies is used as an interdisciplinary case study to understand the problem of academic identity- thinking, where I show first, how white privilege is maintained in the "scholar-practitioner" divide, and second, how white supremacy is naturalized in identity-thinking. Eschewing relative or comparative approaches that reify identity-based logics, I move towards analytic and technical approaches that are productive of an activist-oriented decolonial stance. This gesture draws on the relationality, conflict, tension, power, and politics of studying racialized religious and spiritual subjects with an unapologetically transformative agenda.
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U2 - 10.1093/jaarel/lfx085
DO - 10.1093/jaarel/lfx085
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85047414961
SN - 0002-7189
VL - 86
SP - 307
EP - 340
JO - Journal of the American Academy of Religion
JF - Journal of the American Academy of Religion
IS - 2
ER -