According to Blog Carnival, generally most or all blog carnivals that were dedicated to eradicating racism and/or promoting racial reconciliation are now defunct.
For a while now, I had been considering starting a unique blog carnival but I could not decide what issue or topic to place at the center of a blog carnival. A blog carnival is:
“Welcome to Blog Carnival! We love the idea of blog carnivals where someone takes the time to find really good blog posts on a given topic, and then puts all those posts together in a blog post called a “carnival”.”
Today, I would like to introduce the Racial Recon Carnival.
Recon stands for the three major concerns for this carnival:
Recon as in reconnaissance, or collected or gathered information and data about the devastating effects of all forms of racism (interpersonal, institutional, etc). Every approach to anti-racist efforts is acceptable; there is no one right or wrong way of doing anti-racist work. Racial Recon, as in information, includes stories, statistics, and reports on racist institutions, behaviors, habits, and individuals.
Recon as in reconstruction. Race is a social construct, fostered by fallible human beings. Ultimately, it is up to Christians to resist depraved categorizations of any human being, which we believe to be made in the image of the transcendent and infinite God. Each individual is created as a unique and invaluable person with infinite worth in God’s sight. No form of racial essentialism, stereotypes, or pigeonholing can stand under the doctrine of the imago Dei. Therefore, bloggers are also invited to deconstruct cultural representations and performances of race relations as well as reconstruct visions more in line with the commonwealth of God.
Recon as in reconciliation. Lastly, bloggers are invited to highly and submit stories and reports as well as review books or essays on all efforts focused on racial reconciliation.
This carnival shall take place the last week of every four months, with submissions being due on the 22nd of the fourth month. In addition, special editions of the Racial Recon Carnival shall hereby take place during the month of April dealing with in particular the differences between Southern History and the history of the Confederate States of America until those differences are recognized and we start appreciating the history of the US American South and mourning the history of the Confederacy.
The Racial Recon Carnival was founded upon a Christian theological basis but is open to submissions from persons of different religious (including “secular” and “nonreligious”) backgrounds as long as the submissions deal with anti-racism efforts.
Due to the fact that we are already in the 10th day of April, I would like to extend the deadline for this month’s edition (the first). All submissions will be due April 26th, 2010.
Please email all submissions to either racialrecon [at] yahoo.com or the blog carnival listing and the carnival edition information.
Thank you for your time.
Have you followed any of the Race Thought Experiments on Parableman?
They might be right up your alley for this project.
No, Ken, I had never even heard. I will take a look.
Thanks man!
This is very interesting, Rod. I lack a lot of understanding in this area. Something like this would help me (and those like me who don’t understand as much) to get up to speed.
We will only be happy to help.
Rod I came across this on facebook thanks to Michael Westmoreland-White who is a Baptist Peace Activist. It was alarming and gave me a fright – I keep forgetting these people exist in America – here’s the link:
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/12/kkk-membership-hate/
They should be illegal.
Yes, Steph,
The Southern Poverty Law Center does excellent work. I have never taken the Klan to be a joke.
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totally off the subject, but over at my blog i suggested that the SEC should look at louisville if it expands. check it out & opine