Ebook {Epub PDF} Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God by Kelly Brown Douglas

Douglas, Kelly Brown, author. Title Stand your ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God / Kelly Brown Douglas. Format Book Published Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, [] Description xv, pages ; 21 cm Notes Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents. Her latest book, Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God [Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books ()] examines the deep roots of “Stand Your Ground” culture in America and the challenges it brings for the Black Church community and others. Kelly Brown Douglas is ordained in the Episcopal Church and currently serves at the Washington Cited by: Reverend Kelly Brown Douglas arms the truth of a Black mother’s faith against the "stand your ground" culture of recurring tragedy and continued indifference. Sisters in the Wilderness Explores themes in the biblical story of Hagar-- poverty and slavery, ethnicity and sexual exploitation, exile and encounter with God--showing parallels in the Cited by:

Stand Your Ground.: Douglas Brown, Kelly. Orbis Books, May 5, - Religion - pages. 0 Reviews. "The killing of Trayvon Martin, an African-American teenager in Florida, and the subsequent acquittal of his killer, brought public attention to controversial "Stand Your Ground" laws. The verdict, as much as the killing, sent shock waves. Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God By Brown Douglas, Kelly. New York: Orbis Books, Pp. vii + $ April M. Woodson, University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology. Search for more papers by this author. April M. Woodson. Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God. By Kelly Brown Douglas. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books,.xv+ pages. $. (paper). doi. /hor.. Once again, theologian Kelly Brown Douglas has written a thoughtful and compelling monograph. Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God addresses what she calls the stand-your-ground.

If the cover art of Kelly Brown Douglas’s most recent book doesn’t compel you, what’s inside surely will. Douglas’s Stand Your Ground is a challenging and timely commentary on America’s original sin: the plunder of the black body. What makes this book unique is Douglas’s awareness of contemporary events along with a keen ability to parse out the ways in which the past is connected to contemporary situations. Kelly Brown Douglas’ Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God is one of those books. Douglas writes in response to the murder of Trayvon Martin, tracing the intellectual and. Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God addresses what she calls the stand-your-ground culture that has perme-ated the consciousness of US citizens and has thus contributed to a climate where the murders of Trayvon Martin and countless other young, unarmed black Americans fail to evoke outrage among the masses. In part, Douglas takes her readers back to AD, when Roman historian.