num_pages: 248
description: A provocative examination of how religious practices of forgetting drive white Christian nationalism. The dual traumas of colonialism and slavery are still felt by Native Americans and African Americans as victims of ongoing violence toward people of color today. In The Feeling of Forgetting  John Corrigan calls attention to the trauma experienced by white Americans as perpetrators of this violence. By tracing memorys role in American Christianity Corrigan shows how contemporary white Christian nationalism is motivated by a widespread effort to forget the role race plays in American society. White trauma Corrigan argues courses through American culture like an underground river that sometimes bursts forth into brutality terrorism and insurrection. Tracing the river to its source is a necessary first step toward healing. 
language: English
title: The Feeling of Forgetting: Christianity, Race, and Violence in America
publisher: University of Chicago Press