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Chapter 3 "Historicizing Race" on Albert J. Raboteau, starting with __Slave Religion__, and working through AJR's development as a Black Christian historian. Carter digs deeper than surface level binaries between the "secular" and the "religous" and critiques the fundamental whiteness inherent in both the academy and the seminary.

Chapter 8 "The Great Experiment" covering the years 1998–2001 tells about the short lived Stan Lee Media company, his ex-con business partner who ran a massive stock fraud scheme on the company (allegedly) without Stan's knowledge; meanwhile SLM created the Backstreet Boys superheroes (look it up), and SLM threw million dollar fundraising parties for Bill and Hillary Clinton.

I did not see any of this coming.

Chapter 2, on "Modernity, the Jews, and the Theopolitics of Race" -- a deep dive into Kant's philosophy as it relates to politics, religion, and race.

Fascinating chapter on some of the Kantian roots of white supremacy.

"[Kant's] Pragmatic anthropology guides the human being into detachment from worldly goods in order to be a world citizen or one suited to occupy and thus own the entire world" (103) .