White Devils, Black Gods

Interweaving academic theory, (auto)ethnography, and memoir-styled narrative to make use of personal vulnerability for the benefit of the reader, Chris M. Driscoll explores what the "white devil? trope means for understanding and responding to tensions emerging from toxic white masculinity. The book provides a historical and philosophical account of the "white devil? as it appears in various black religions, particularly as these traditions are expressed through the contemporary cultural expression of hip hop. Driscoll argues that embrace of the trope of the white devil enables white men to come into greater "knowledge of self,? a knowledge that finds white male selves marked by self-hatred.