A Dream Unfinished: Theological Reflections on America from the Margins

Author: Fernandez, Eleazar S. and Fernando F. Segovia,eds.
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers, Eugene, OR
ISBN: 155635441X
Table of Contents: Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Minority Studies and Christian Studies

Part I African-American Voices
ch. 1 Critical Reflection on the Problems of History and Narrative in a Recent African-American Research Program (Victor Anderson)
ch. 2 To Be the Bridge: Voices from the Margin (Diana L. Hayes)
ch. 3 Womanist Theology and Black Theology: Conversational Envisioning of an Unfinished Dream (Dwight N. Hopkins and Linda E. Thomas)
ch. 4 "What Happens to a Dream Deferred?": Reflections and Hopes of a Member of a Transitional Generation(Marcia Y. Riggs)
ch. 5 Growing Like Topsy: Womanist Reflections on Dreams and Nightmares (Emilie Townes)

Part II Asian-American Voices
ch. 6 Reformation of Identities and Values within Asian North American Communities (Fumitaka Matsuoka)
ch. 7 A Common Journey, Different Paths, the Same Destination: Method in Liberation Theologies (Peter C. Phan)
ch. 8 A Theology of Transmutation (Andrew Sung Park)
ch. 9 Exodus-toward-Egypt: Filipino-Americans' Struggle to Realize the Promised Land in America (Elezar S. Fernandez)

Part III Hispanic-Latino/a Voices
ch. 10 Constructing Our Cuban Ethnic Identity While in Babylon (Miguel A. De La Torre)
ch. 11 A New Mestizaje/Mulatez: Reconceptualizing Difference (Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz)
ch. 12 La otra America - The Other America (Daisy L. Machado)
ch. 13 Melting and Dreaming in America: Vision and Re-visions (Fernando F. Segovia)

Conclusion: On Unfinished Dreams, Defiant Hopes, and Historical Projects (Elezar S. Fernandez)
Contributors
Index

Theologians on "the margins" reflect on how their experience of ethnic and racial minority has influenced their theology and how this relates to the "American Dream." (From the Publisher)

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