Roundtable Discussion on *Disordered: The Holy Icon & Racial Myths* by Jessica Wai-Fong Wong

Our current socio-political reality is becoming increasingly marked by extreme polarization. Anti-black, anti-gay, anti-trans, and anti-immigrant legislation has sent a clear message about the danger that certain people present to this country and the American way of life. Why are such people identified as dangerous? What threat do they pose? This Roundtable tackles these questions by bringing together a diverse group of scholars to discuss Jessica Wong’s *Disordered: The Holy Icon and Racial Myths* (Baylor, 2021). Driven by the fundamental inquiry of why Black and Brown bodied peoples are seen and treated as a threat within the United States, viewed as both internal and external enemies, *Disordered* investigates the historically rooted religious convictions that lead to physical attributes of the body functioning as a means of reading peoples’ spiritual, intellectual, and socio-political order (or disorder) and their capacity to participate productively within the properly ordered space of civilized (white, Christian) society.