Unfinished Business: Black Women, the Black Church, and the

Unfinished Business: Black Women, the Black Church, and the Struggle to Thrive in America

Day presents a striking portrayal of poverty, with all its related problems, among black women in this country unemployment, underemployment, isolation, and lack of assets such a car or home ownership. She turns to the black church as a potential agent of social change, indicating ways in which the black church can take up the equivalent of a Poor People s Campaign. She takes on the common stereotypes that castigate poor black women as morally problematic and dependent on the money of good tax-paying citizens, demonstrating their inaccuracy.

A specific concern Day addresses throughout is how to aid black women to develop assets that will prevent long-term poverty and allow them to thrive. In the words of Cornel West, This book is a pioneering and path-blazing work in Christian ethics that combines a sophisticated class-based notion of thriving with an asset-building approach of public policy for prophetic Christian praxis. Keri Day makes Martin Luther King, Jr. and Fanny Lou Hamer smile from the grave!
Country USA
Brand Orbis Books
Manufacturer Orbis Books
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781570759819
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Unfinished Business: Black Women, the Black Church, and the Struggle to Thrive in America