Whose Beloved Community? Lauren K. Hall and the ancient mythic themes

and the ancient mythic themes behind them

the Great Sioux War

the continental nuclear test facility during the Cold War

This book is unusual in the scope of the material discussed which includes key empirical studies by social scientists

Whose Beloved Community? Lauren K. Hall and the ancient mythic themesMartin Luther King Jr.'s idea of "the beloved community" focused on the hoped for new relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed after the success of a nonviolent movement. But the vision excluded, and sometimes still excludes, LGBTQIA people and Black women. The editors curate essays that see beloved community as a generous space that centers justice. Taking inspiration from the radical moral vision of figures like Bayard Rustin and Audre