Is God A White Racist? by William R. Jones

Jones Most Valuable Mentor Award, established by the Florida Endowment Fund for Higher Education to recognize the contribution of faculty members in the state of Florida university system to McKnight Black doctoral students Florida State University Faculty Teaching Award in 19 state of Florida Ida S. Jones was recipient of many awards, including: the African American Studies and Research Center Award for Outstanding Contribution to Philosophy and the African American Community from Purdue University Distinguished Visiting Professor in Afro-American Studies at Lafayette College in 1983–84 first recipient of the William R. He died in Tallahassee, Florida on Friday, July 13, 2012. Jones retired from Florida State University in 1999 as Professor Emeritus. In 1973, Beacon Press published Jones’s controversial piece, Is God A White Racist? A Preamble to Black Theology, and in 1978, he co-edited and contributed to the monograph Black Theology II. Jones authored articles regarding oppression and the church’s role in social change.

He served as a community minister at FSU as well. He became Professor of Religion and the founding director of Black Studies at Florida State University (FSU) in 1977. Jones taught at Yale Divinity School from 1969-1977, and was coordinator of Black Studies there from 1974-1976.

He was a visiting professor at Howard from 1964-1969 while concurrently working on a PhD in Religious Studies at Brown University, completed in 1969. Jones was ordained by the Unitarian Society of Wellesley Hills, MA on June 15, 1958, and served from 1958-1960 as Assistant Minister and Director of Religious Education at the all-white First Unitarian Church in Providence, Rhode Island. Jones earned a Masters of Divinity from Harvard University in 1958.

He recieved a BA in philosophy, magna cum laude, from Howard in 1955. Jones attended Howard University, where he initially majored in engineering before transferring to philosophy. He was one of six children born to to Henry W. Jones is well-known for his 1973 monograph Is God A White Racist?, as well as the oppression investigation tools the Jones Analytic Model (JAM) and Jones Oppression Grid (JOG). His scholarly interests included philosophy, Blacks in the field of philosophy, racism, theodicy and Christian theism, Black theology, and especially the operation of oppressive structures in American society. William Ronald 'Bill' Jones (1933-2012) was an African American philosopher, scholar, and professor.

Is God A White Racist? by William R. Jones