I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation (Prophetic Christianity)

by Chanequa Walker-Barnes

For Irving, those distortions include the ideas that (1) race, culture, and ethnicity are pertinent to only nonwhite people; (2) race is biologically determined; (3) racism consists of making derogatory comments or engaging in intentionally cruel acts against nonwhite people; and (4) “If the cause of racial inequity were understood, it would be solved by now.”