About Us

• The Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race (TRRR) is a community of discourse, focusing on religious responses to issues of race (and similarly functioning ethnic or cultural markers of social otherness) within contemporary western cultures. At the heart of the TRRR initiative is a concern that a current obstacle to addressing persistent racial problems in a number of western contexts is that “race” is increasingly dismissed as a category of explanation for social problems—even where blacks find themselves disproportionately enduring adverse social dynamics and conditions. TRRR wants to ensure that where race is an accurate and useful explanation for social problems and potential solutions that it receives appropriate attention. Though TRRR’s approach is scholarly, its commitment is to advancing informed and progressive approaches to persistent racial problems in dialogue and collaboration with broad publics (including faith-based, civil society, and governmental leaders).

   

  TRRR Conveners:

  R. Drew Smith, Morehouse College; William Ackah, Birkbeck, University of London; Rothney Tshaka, University of South Africa; and J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, Trinity Theological College, Ghana

   

  TRRR Advisory Council:

  Allan Boesak (chair), University of the Free State and Stellenbosch University

  Iva E. Carruthers, The Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference, Inc.

  Frank Chikane, University of the Witwatersrand

  Carol B. Duncan, Wilfred Laurier University

  Walter Earl Fluker, Boston University

  Marla F. Frederick, Harvard University

  J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, Trinity Theological College

  Nico Koopman, Stellenbosch University

  Emmanuel Lartey, Candler School of Theology, Emory

  Otis Moss, III, Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago, Illinois

  R. David Muir, Faith in Britain

  Peter J. Paris, Princeton Theological Seminary

  Andrew Phillips, University of South Africa

  Anthony Pinn, Rice University

  Anthony G. Reddie, Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education

  David Shosanya, London Baptist Association

  Chuck Singleton, Loveland Church, Ontario, California

  Gosnell Yorke, University of KwaZulu-Natal and University of South Africa

   

  TRRR Communications Consultant:

  Jamye Wooten, Kinetics Communications, LLC

  Kinetics Communications is an event marketing and strategic communications firm that helps nonprofits, faith-based organizations and individuals bring attention to their efforts and engage their audiences.  KineticsLive.com is a subsidiary of Kinetics Communications, LLC.

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