Welcome!
My name is Elreta Dodds. I am an author and independent publisher. I have written five books in the area of Christian apologetics (books that defend the Christian faith) specifically as it pertains to the subject matters of racism, sexism, slavery, and chauvinism, and I've written one book in the area of Christian dating. My latest book, "Racism, The Bible, and The American Dream, "is Winner of the following Book-Industry recognized awards (a full Table of Contents is provided at the bottom of this page):
- Winner of the 2012 International Book Award in African American Studies.
- Winner of the 2011 National Indie Excellence Book Award in Social Change.
The overall purpose of "Racism, The Bible, and The American Dream" (subtitled: "From Slavery to Obama: A Frank Discussion, from a Christian Perspective, on Racial Discrimination in America, and its effect of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness") is to dispel any misconception that the Bible condones racism and to point out that institutional racism is not only a social issue but it is a moral issue as well. The book aims to better enlighten the public about the seriousness of institutional racism that does indeed exist in America against minorities today, to reveal how the Bible actually speaks against racism in any form, and to redirect, as many as possible, those who erroneously misuse the Bible as a weapon to justify racial hatred. My motto: I cannot "cure" racism, but in my book I encourage people to stand up or speak out against it when they see it happening within their own circles. If just a fragment of the population begins to do that, then we, as a country, can at least put a significant dent in the racial inequities that still currently exist.
The book is available wherever books are sold and and can be ordered at any online bookstore as well as directly from the distributor. To place an order with my distributor (Atlas Books), click onto http://www.atlasbooks.com, call 1-800-Booklog, or click onto http://www.bookmasters.com/marktplc/03049.htm.
This website will give you information about each book that I have written and published and also tells you how you may purchase them (just click onto the links located at the upper right).
If you'd like to take a look at a chapter of one of the books (backlist titles only) to help you decide whether or not you want to buy, I'll send you (via email attachment in a protected word document) a copy of any chapter of your choice. You can contact me by clicking "contact information" (upper right hand) or you can email me at presstowardthemark@netscape.com. Just ask for whichever chapter you want.
My backlist titles are listed below. To find out more about the backlist titles you're interested in (and how to purchase) just scroll back up and click on the title of the book that you're interested in (upper right).
Is God a Chauvinist? The Bible and Women: A Complete Look (publication date: May 2002)
For Christians who are Seriously Dating or Would Like to Be: Questions every Christian should ask before Getting Engaged to be Married (publication date: February 2004)
What the Bible Really says about Slavery This and other Information on the issue of Slavery as it applies to History and Religion (publication date: January 2000 Revised version). Book is currently out of print and is not available in bookstores, but you can still purchase it through on-line bookstores.
The Trouble with Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam Another Message to the Black Man in America (publication date: November 1997)
Book is currently out of print and is not available in bookstores, but you can still purchase it through on-line bookstores.
If you want to know where I'll be speaking and/or where my book signing events will be held, just scroll up to the right and click on "Elreta's Itinerary" (upper right hand).
MY BLOGS:
http://www.controversialchristianissues.blogspot.com.
http://www.predestinations.blogspot.com/.
http://www.thechurchandwomen.blogspot.com.
MY YOU TUBE VIDEOS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O054KmXzubc
(22-minute Sermon entitled "Oh, The Blood" preached at City of Refuge, Bishop Noel Jones presiding, 01/08/2012)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro0qm8duJAQ
("Let Your Light Shine" Part 2)
To learn more about me click onto "About Elreta Dodds" (upper right). You can also find out more about me through any search engine.
If
you have any questions in general, I can be reached by phone at (313)
527-0068. My business address is Press Toward The Mark Publications,
P.O. Box 02099 Detroit, Michigan 48202.
Thanks so much for visiting. I pray that you will find the books helpful, encouraging, and enlightening.
Enjoy perusing the site and God bless.
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Racism, The Bible, and The American Dream
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1
RACE AND RACISM DEFINED …1
WHAT RACE IS ….1
WHY RACE IS …. 2
RACISM DEFINED…4
Individual Racism…7
Institutional / Structural / Systematic racism…8
Active Racism…………9
Passive Racism…….10
Scientific / Ideological Racism….10
Reverse or Reactionary Racism….10
Religious Racism….11
Minority Racism….. 11
Horizontal Racism………12
CHAPTER SUMMATION…..12
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CHAPTER 2
THE RISE OF RACISM IN
IT BEGAN WITH THE “INDIANS” …14
THE ADVENT OF SLAVERY IN
The Civil War….18
The Making of the
The Amendments to the Constitution…22
- The Thirteenth Amendment….24
- The Fourteenth Amendment……25
- The Fifteenth Amendment….27
THE BIRTH OF “WHITE
White
Black
Who’s white and who’s not…30
CHAPTER SUMMATION…34
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CHAPTER 3
A HISTORY OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN
EARLY CHINESE IMMIGRANT DISCRIMINATION…36
JIM CROW….39
Reconstruction and Redemption….40
Segregation under Jim Crow…41
Education under Jim Crow: Brown vs. the Board of Education…42
“Passing” under Jim Crow…45
Interracial marriage under Jim Crow…45
The O.J. Simpson double murder trial verdict….50
The Robert Blake murder trial verdict……51
Housing discrimination under Jim Crow…….52
THE KU KLUX KLAN….53
The lynching of blacks and other minorities in
CHAPTER SUMMATION……60
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CHAPTER 4
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN
The Emmet Till murder…..61
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr……..62
The
The Woolworths lunch counter sit-ins….65
The Freedom Riders…………66
James Meredith and the
The 1963 March on
The Civil Rights Act of 1964….70
The 1965
Malcolm X…………..73
The voting rights of 1965…..74
CHAPTER SUMMATION…..76
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CHAPTER 5
INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IN
INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IN POLITICS…..78
The vote…..78
The Electoral College….81
The
The Office of the Governor….93
The Office of the President of the
INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM….102
Racial Profiling…102
- The case of Janneral Denson…106
- 2010
- The criminal justice system…..113
- The
- The death penalty and sentencing….118
THE INSTITUIONAL RACISM OF
Early film making……..120
The Birth of a Nation………..121
Oscar Micheaux………..122
“Blaxploitation” films………….123
Oscar isn’t color blind…125
THE INSTITUTIONAL RACISM OF BEAUTY….127
“Lookism”……..127
Hair……………………..130
Skin color………..132
“There she is”…………….136
INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IN THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM…138
ENVIRONMENTAL INSTITUTIONAL RACISM……..148
Hurricane Katrina……………..150
- Levee history………………….151
- Details and implications…..151
INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IN THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM….160
INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IN THE HOUSING MARKET….165
White flight……………166
Predatory lending………………167
Redlining……………….168
INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IN EDUCATION…….170
INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IN THE WORKPLACE………172
Affirmation Action……………173
The Glass Ceiling………………………175
White Privilege………………….177
CHAPTER SUMMATION…………….180
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CHAPTER 6
RACISM IN RELIGIONS AND IDEOLOGIES ASSOCIATED WITH CHRISTIANITY………181
THE CHRISTIAN IDENTITY MOVEMENT……181
General teachings of Christian Identity…………..182
Specific teachings of Christian Identity…….183
THE MORMONS……..186
THE FALSE DOCTRINE OF THE “BIBLICAL BLACK CURSE”……194
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CHAPTER SUMMATION………204
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CHAPTER 7
THE BIBICAL PERPECTIVE ON RACE AND RACISM…206
THE BIBLE WHEN IT COMES TO RACIAL CATEGORIES………207
THE BIBLE WHEN IT COMES TO FAVORITISM…..211
THE BIBLE WHEN IT COMES TO HUMAN EQUALITY….220
THE BIBLE WHEN IT COMES TO SLAVERY…..225
THE BIBLE WHEN IT COMES TO “INTERRACIAL” MARRIAGE…233
Moses and his Ethiopian wife………….235
Marriages that the Bible speaks against…………237
THE BIBLE WHEN IT COMES TO THE COLOR OF GOD….241
THE BIBLE WHEN IT COMES TO VERY DARK SKIN….243
Song of Solomon………244
Skin colors of disease………………..249
THE BIBLE WHEN IT COMES TO THE JEWS AS THE
Abraham: The father of the Jews; a Great Nation……..253
The Promised Land…………259
Chosen
Salvation is available to Jews and non-Jews alike…..268
Peter’s prejudice…………….282
Jesus and the Greek woman………….290
The Samaritans…………………………………..295
People of color and Jewish lineage……303
THE BIBLE WHEN IT COMES TO PREDESTINATION….307
CHAPTER SUMMATION…….315
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EPILOGUE…………………..320
APPENDIX: THE BASIC BELIEFS OF CHRISTIANITY…322
CHRISTIANS BELIEVE THAT THE BIBLE IS INFALLIBLE AND HAS ABSOLUTE SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY….322
The Word of God….322
The absolute authority of the Scriptures….325
Evidences that support the Bible as being the Word of God….327
- Authorship….327
- Circulation………..328
- History……328
- Prophecies……….328
- Archeology…….............331
CHRISTIANS BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST AS LORD AND
SAVIOR ..……………331
CHRISTIANS BELIEVE IN THE DEITY OF CHRIST…….333
Evidences that support the belief that Jesus is God……341
- His birth and his Name……….341
- The Messianic prophecies………….343
- Other historical documents…….348
- Risk of execution…………349
- Martyrdom………………………349
- Miracles and healings……….350
CHRISTIANS BELIEVE IN THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST………………………….351
Evidences giving support that Jesus was resurrected and sits at the right hand side of the Father………….354
- The Resurrection cannot be disproved……354
- Hundreds of eyewitness accounts…….355
CHRISTIANS BELIEVE IN THE DOCTINE OF THE “TRINITY”…………………..356
CHRISTIANS BELIEVE THAT GOD HAS A NAME……357
CHRISTIANS BELIEVE THAT SATAN IS REAL…..361
