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Christianity and Black Oppression - Duppy Know Who Fe Frighten (Paperback)
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Christianity and Black Oppression - Duppy Know Who Fe Frighten (Paperback)
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This work, "Christianity and Black Oppression: Duppy Know Who Fe
Frighten" asks: How is it that blacks have been Christianized for
more than four hundred years, and in some cases more than five
hundred years, and yet blacks are stereotyped as morally and
mentally inferior? At the very first encounter between Europeans
and Africans, Africans were perceived as "pagan," "heathen," and
"devil worshippers." The tool that would transform Africans, it was
postulated, would be the Christian religion. In spite of over four
centuries of Christianity, the perception of blacks as morally and
mentally inferior has not changed. Blacks, it would appear, carry a
stigma that is genetic and can be transmitted. "Christianity and
Black Oppression: Duppy Know Who Fe Frighten" also addresses the
issue as to why there has not been a radical change in the
perception of blacks in spite of centuries of blacks' investment of
an inordinate amount of time, energy and money in the Christian
religion. Green argues that Blacks were forced to surrender their
African world view and adopt a European Christian world view. Black
history and culture are marginalized, and at times demonized,
within Christianity, and this is transferred to other areas of the
lives of blacks. Indeed in this work, a comparison is made between
the Dalits of India who are ostracized within the Hindu religion
and blacks who share the commonality of oppression that is based on
a stigma that is supposedly genetic and therefore can be
transmitted. In the light of the fact that Christianity is
considered to be an egalitarian religion with a God who is
benevolent and who intervenes in peoples' lives, and the reality of
black oppression, the question then arises as to whether blacks are
subjected to "divine racism."
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