The Brown Church: 500 Years of Resistance and Organizing - with Robert Chao Romero, PhD, JD

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

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4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In his new book, The Brown Church, Robert Chao Romero speaks from spiritual borderlands. As a Latino pastor and scholar trained in critical race theory, he speaks to those managing what many times feel like mutually exclusive identities. In the process his book has something essential to teach all of us about the history of the Brown Church in North America and how Indigenous and Latina/o peoples have been fighting to decolonize faith, decenter Whiteness, and create more inclusive and equal communities for all. In the course of our conversation, we touch on liberation theology, ways faith communities have been practicing resistance for half a millennium, and the ongoing work to recognize the power and import of the Religious Left. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's new book: https://www.amazon.com/Preparing-War-Extremist-Christian-Nationalism/dp/1506482163 SWAJ Apparel is here! https://straight-white-american-jesus.creator-spring.com/listing/not-today-uncle-ron To Donate: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BradleyOnishi Venmo: @straightwhitejc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Straight White American Jesus, hosted and produced in partnership with the
0:18.4	Cap Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
0:21.9	My name is Brad O'Nishi. I am Associate Professor of Religious Studies at
0:25.2	Skidmore College. Today's the Tuesday after the election week that we all endured in this country
0:30.5	last week, and one of the storylines that emerged early on from Florida
0:36.0	was the fact that so many Cuban Americans are what the media often referred to as
0:40.5	Latinos voted for Donald Trump in Miami-Dade County and other parts of Florida.
0:46.0	There was some superficial discussion as to why Joe Biden and Kamala Harris didn't do better in Florida.
0:53.0	One of the other storylines that was a little bit covered over in my opinion
0:57.0	from later in the week was that Arizona flipped blue.
1:01.0	And it flipped blue because of in large part organizing by
1:06.4	indigenous leaders and communities and by Latino and Latino organizers and
1:10.4	communities. I think one of the things that this highlighted for me was
1:14.9	the complexity of talking about religion and politics and what we
1:20.2	categorize as Latino and Latino people across the country.
1:25.4	It's an immensely complicated discussion,
1:28.4	just as the category of Latino, Latino,
1:30.8	Latino, it really doesn't do a great job of attending to the nuances of what it means to be a
1:37.4	Cuban American in Florida versus what it means to be a Mexican American or a Guatemalan American in Arizona or California.
1:47.5	And so one of the things I wanted to point out before our interview today with Dr. Robert Chow
1:51.9	Romero is that we've attended to some of these
1:54.9	complexities on our show before. If you listen to my interview with Catherine Stewart
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