Volume 43, Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2023
Kelly Brown Douglas
Pages 249-261
Visions, Imagination, and Dreams in the Work of Ethics
What Does it Mean for Us to be Religious Scholars Sixty Years After King’s Dream?
This essay addresses what is at the foundation of the US’s seemingly inherent “resistance” to racial justice and hence to Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream. This resistance is rooted in a moral imaginary corrupted by an epistemological gaze defined by whiteness and informed by anti-Blackness. For religious scholars, this means that we must adopt a preferential option for the knowledge and voices of those who historically have been granted little or no epistemic authority within our disciplines.