History’s Imagined Past: How Scholars Invented Historical Time
Sarit Kattan Gribetz on Oded Steinberg’s Race, Nation, History The fields of rabbinics and ancient Judaism have long asked a tantalizing question: Was
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Denmark Vesey: Conspiracy, Scripture, and Slave Rebellion
Bernard E. Powers Jr. on Jeremy Schipper’s, Denmark Vesey’s Bible The spring and summer months of 2022 marked two-hundred years since the discovery
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No Gods, No Masters
Vincent Lloyd on Nathan G. Alexander What does an atheist want? The answer is simple: freedom from domination. A powerful instinct toward liberation
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James Baldwin: Witnessing in Dark Times
Jamil W. Drake on Eddie S. Glaude On May 16, 1969, James Baldwin appeared as a guest on the Dick Cavett Show. Live
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The Christian Origins of Racism
M. Lindsay Kaplan on Antisemitism to Racism Medieval claims about the Jews’ criminal role in the crucifixion consigned them to an enslaved status,
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White Noise and White Silence: Evangelicals and Race
Matthew A. Benton on white evangelicals and racial justice American social unrest after George Floyd’s death (and Breonna Taylor’s, and Ahmaud Arbery’s, and
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How I Learned White Supremacy
Kristopher Norris on Robert. P. Jones At its 1995 annual meeting, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) apologized for its racism. The largest Protestant
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The Ethnocentrism of Science: Race, Biology, and Bigoted Fictions
Matthew Mutter on Charles King Near the end of Gods of the Upper Air, Charles King plucks a 1958 letter from Margaret Mead’s
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White Enough? Race in America
Ayesha Ramachandran on Sharmila Sen What do Nikki Haley and Kamala Harris have in common—apart from unrealized Presidential ambitions? This could be the
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Religion and National Loyalty
Larry W. Hurtado on the origins of religious pluralism In its first two centuries, early Christianity effectively laid the basis for religious pluralism.
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