White Daughter of Empire: A Pilgrim of Justice and Peace Owning White Privilege. Issue 1 (21st January 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Durber, Susan
• Is Part Of: Ecumenical review. Volume 72:Issue 1(2020)
• Page Start: 87
• Page End: 97
• Publication Date: 2020-01-21
• Subjects: racism -- Empire -- white privilege -- injustice -- Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace; Ecumenical movement -- Periodicals; 280.04205
• DOI: 10.1111/erev.12486
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0013-0796

Abstract

Abstract: As a white British woman, drawing on a Pilgrim Team Visit to Bangladesh in 2019, I reflect on racism, Empire, and white privilege and on how my eyes have been opened to the history that has shaped me, the wider world, and the Christian faith I have inherited. Through personal memoir, critical reflection on experience, and academic reading, I confront how racism, as a combination of power and prejudice, provides the lens through which I see the world, as a white British woman, and how experience and faith must both challenge and redeem.