As a response to generations of African American thought, and particularly libeation and womanist theology, this is a passionate, persuasive and percussive (self)-exploration of whiteness in America.' - Catherine Keller, author of Face of the Deep: a theology of becoming.CITY PRIMEVAL is a unique document of the New York, Berlin & Prague underground scenes from the late 1970s to the present from New York Post-Punk & No Wave, to the fall of the Berlin Wall & Reunification, to the Velvet Revolution & the Prague Renaissance. His extraordinarily readable theo-poetics shoots pleasure through a painful practice of socio-spiritual anti-supremacism. Jim Perkinson's roots and routes have kept him close to the lived realities, the street syncopations, of the racial divide. The result is a profound reshaping of White reality and theology that has the potential to set the stage for things to come.' - Joerg Rieger, Professor of Systematic Theology, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University Rather than painting a bleak picture of life under pressure, the book finds passion and vitality in unexpected places. Key are not intention and moral appeal, as is commonly assumed, but the alternative energies and powers that arise in the midst of repression. Second, Perkinson rethinks the basis of transformation. The book reads the latter in light of the former and covers new ground. While Black reality in the United States has been subject to countless analyses, White reality appears to be impossible to grasp.

'In this fascinating and inspiring book, Perkinson accomplishes two things that seem virtually impossible. 'Perkinson does what no white theologian has done, namely offer a full-length treatment of white racism that is politically informed and theologically constructive.' - Mark Taylor, Professor of Theology and Culture, Princeton Theological Seminary

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