Race, Equality, Citizenship, and Belonging: Reading James Baldwin and Wong Kim Ark

The following essays are part of a collaboration between the Journal of Law and Religion and Political Theology. Editors from both journals selected the two texts interrogated and interpreted here—James Baldwin’s essay “Equal in Paris” and the United States Supreme Court decision in the case United...

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Published in:The Journal of law and religion 2022-05, Vol.37 (2), p.227-231
Main Authors: Green, M. Christian, True, David, Allard, Silas W., Lloyd, Vincent
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Asian cultural groups
Citizenship
Collaboration
Critical race theory
Equality
Essay Roundtable: An Exchange of Essays with Political Theology
Essays
Expatriates
Immigrants
Interdisciplinary aspects
Law
Politics
Race relations
Reading
Religious education
Religious studies
Supreme Court decisions
Supreme courts
Theology
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Summary:The following essays are part of a collaboration between the Journal of Law and Religion and Political Theology. Editors from both journals selected the two texts interrogated and interpreted here—James Baldwin’s essay “Equal in Paris” and the United States Supreme Court decision in the case United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898). The purpose of the collaboration was twofold. The first purpose was to see what new interpretations arise when scholars working primarily in law read the essay by Baldwin, who has been a touchstone in much contemporary Black theology, and when scholars working in religious studies read the legal decision in Wong Kim Ark, a case in which the Supreme Court extended citizenship to the child of Chinese immigrants who conceived and bore him on American soil. The second purpose was to divide publication between the journals, with each journal publishing three of the six essays, with a view to building bridges between readers of each journal over a topic at the intersection of both law and political theology.
ISSN:0748-0814
2163-3088
DOI:10.1017/jlr.2022.31