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Resistance, race, and subjectivity in congregation-based community organizing
1Human & Organizational Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Journal of Community Psychology
|March 31, 2021
Summary
Resistance movements are shaping modern discourse, prompting analysis of political subjectivity. Centering racial justice in organizing cultivates a reflexive, relational, and constructive political subject, fostering social change.
Area of Science:
- Political Science
- Sociology
- Religious Studies
Background:
- Contemporary discourse highlights resistance against racial violence and xenophobia.
- Public engagement with resistance raises questions about citizenship and individual agency.
- The study examines the formation of the citizen-subject through resistance.
Purpose of the Study:
- To analyze the citizen-subject emerging from resistance to racial injustice.
- To explore the role of Faith in Action's (FIA) theological organizing framework.
- To understand how organizing processes shape political selves and social change.
Main Methods:
- Analysis of discourses from The Prophetic Resistance Podcast series.
- Examination of news media coverage of prophetic resistance within FIA.
- Application of political subjectivity as an analytic lens.
Main Results:
- FIA's shift to a racial analytic and justice outcomes cultivates a reflexive political subject.
- This approach fosters relationality by dismantling racial hierarchy and exclusion.
- Prophetic action through organizing creates conditions for new political subjects.
Conclusions:
- Organizing is a key mechanism for generating social change.
- Political subjectivity offers a valuable framework for understanding organizing's impact.
- The study enriches conceptual development of social change through organized resistance.
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