Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery Audiobook (Free)

You are unable to discover lands already inhabited.

Injustice has plagued American society for years and years. And we cannot move toward being a more just nation without understanding the root causes that have designed our tradition and institutions. In this prophetic blend of background, theology, and social commentary, Tag Charles and Soong-Chan Rah reveal the far-reaching, damaging effects of the ‘Doctrine of Finding.’ In the fifteenth century, standard chapel edicts gave Christian explorers the proper to about Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy from the Doctrine of Discovery state territories they ‘uncovered.’ This is institutionalized as an implicit national platform that justifies American triumphalism, white supremacy, and ongoing injustices. The effect is that the dominating culture idealizes a history of finding, opportunity, extension, and equality, while minority communities have already been traumatized by colonization, slavery, segregation, and dehumanization. Healing starts when deeply entrenched values are unsettled. Charles and Rah aim to recover a common storage and shared knowledge of where we’ve been and where we are going. As other nations have instituted truth and reconciliation commissions, therefore do the writers call our nation and churches to a truth-telling that will expose past injustices and open up the entranceway to conciliation and accurate community.