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Alex Mikulich

Catholic Social Ethicist

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Alex Mikulich

About the
Author

Alex Mikulich is a Catholic theologian and social ethicist, award winning author, antiracism facilitator, and activist. His latest book, Unlearning White Supremacy: A Spirituality for Racial Liberation, will be published by Orbis Books in June 2022. His previous books include The Scandal of White Complicity in US Hyper-Incarceration: A Nonviolent Spirituality of White Resistance (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013) and Interrupting White Privilege: Catholic Theologians Break the Silence (Orbis Books, 2007) which won the 2008 Theological Book of the Year Award. Alex’s scholarship and essays address the intersection of modernity/coloniality, anti-Black white supremacy, and living inter-spiritually with all of our human and non-human kin so that the entire web of life may flourish and thrive. He has served as an invited member of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium since 2008. He provides tailored presentations, workshops, antiracism facilitation, and group spiritual reflection informed by Ignatian, Franciscan, Carmelite, womanist, and ecological spiritual traditions.

Unlearning White Supremacy

A Spirituality For Racial Liberation

Drawing on the writings of James Baldwin, W. E. B. DuBois, M. Shawn Copeland, and others, the author weaves together historical, theological, ethical, and sociological analysis to understand the origins and evolution of anti-Black white supremacy and to suggest ways in which white Christians in particular can work to overcome it in themselves and in their institutions.

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Testimonials

“For more than twenty years, Alex Mikulich has lived Christian discipleship in a praxis of active, practical solidarity with Africa American children, women, and men in opposition to white racist supremacy. Drawing on his experiences as a parent, lay minister, theologian, and scholar, and taking inspiration from Thomas Merton’s Seeds of Destruction, Mikulich interrogates disordered historical, social, cultural, and ecclesial contexts that promote and sustain white supremacy. [And] he invites White people of faith to take up concrete practices that counter white supremacy and encourages them to live out of a new consciousness and spirituality as members of the Body of Christ in active solidarity with all marginalized peoples.”
M. Shawn CopelandProfessor Emerita of Theology, Boston College
“Unlearning White Supremacy is what White Christians need right now to deepen our spiritual investment in addressing racism’s violence. Mikulich places our fingers in the colonial wounds of white supremacy, and with searing analysis interrogates the white ecosystems and patterns of self-perceived innocence that remain. This richly textured gathering of lament and transformative practices is hard to put down and is difficult to ignore.”
Jeannine Hill FletcherAuthor, The Sin of White Supremacy
“Weaving together personal experiences with wisdom from Black Christian and secular sources, Mikulich is unflinching in his challenge that white people of faith have responsibility to work for racial justice because, as his fellow white Catholic Thomas Merton presciently declared decades earlier, racism is a white problem. This book shows how the work of antiracism requires investment of the whole self, which includes one’s spirituality and faith commitments. Unlearning White Supremacy offers resources and tools to support those white Christians seeking a holistic approach to decolonizing their imaginations and outlook, while deepening their commitment to the work of racial justice in the church and world.”
Daniel P. HoranOFM, Professor of Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Theology at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame and author of A White Catholic’s Guide to Racism and Privilege

Engagements:
Transforming
Together

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Catholic Social
Teaching

I offer presentations addressing the history and development of Catholic social teaching.




Applied Social
Ethics

Applying Catholic social teaching and theology to racism, poverty,
hyper-incarceration, predatory lending, criminal justice reform, environmental racism, and faithful citizenship, among other issues.

Antiracism Facilitation

I bring extensive experience co-facilitating antiracism processes including white caucus groups and my specialized unlearning white supremacy workshops.

Spirituality

I offer group spiritual reflection informed by my experience in Ignatian, Mercy, Franciscan, and Carmelite spiritualities aimed toward transformation so that
all of our human and
non-human kin may thrive.

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