Prompt: Based on this case study, is it credible to claim that “one can see the
justice of God working in the world” (197) if this is a world where black persons can be
killed without consequences for their killers? Stated differently, is it possible for God
and humans “to create the world we crave for our daughters and sons” (227)? If yes,
how? If no, why?
Required reading: (please base essay solely from these sources)
Kelly Brown Douglas, “America’s Exceptionalism” (ch. 1), “The Black
Body: A Guilty Body” (ch. 2), and “Manifest Destiny War” (ch. 3) in Stand
Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God (2015), pp. 3-132.
Kelly Brown Douglas, “A Father’s Faith: The Freedom of God” (ch. 4),
“Jesus and Trayvon: The Justice of God” (ch. 5), and “Prophetic
Testimony: The Time of God” (ch. 6), in Stand Your Ground, pp. 137-227.
Please cite page number for references. Need to be articulate on the readings please.
