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After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging with Dr. Willie James Jennings

Theologian

Willie Jennings


Duration

52.02


Uploaded to YouTube

19 October 2021

Added to Database

25 September 2025


YouTube description

This conversation, dappled with Dr. Jennings' readings of original poetry and prose, examines the destitution of faculty when the only legitimate expression of scholarship is to perform the values of being a white, self-sufficient, and male. Individualism, competition, and arcane merit standards have fundamentally distorted theological education. Jennings asserts that the generative aim of education ought to be belonging. He challenges us to muster the courage and creativity for the discovery of our genuine contributions to the production of knowledge. Without this risk we fail our students and one another. What is the collective sound of your faculty? When the faculty plays together - what is original tune? In what kinds of improvisation does your faculty revel? How does the music of the faculty inspire students to join in?