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First Impressions #91: Josef Sorett on A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics

September 20, 2016September 20, 2016

Most of the major African American literary and cultural movements of the twentieth century have been understood and interpreted as secular. In reality, religion ... [Read More]

First Impressions #87: Christopher Driscoll on White Lies, Race, and American Religion

July 26, 2016July 26, 2016

The distinctions that we pose between ourselves and others, such as white and black, end up having a wide array of consequences. Kristian ... [Read More]

MRBlog | DISPATCHES. NEH Summer Institute on Problems in the Study of Religion (pt. 2) by Sarah E. Rollens

June 13, 2016June 12, 2016

By Sarah E. Rollens In a post last week, I reported on the first week of a three-week NEH Institute on Problems in the Study ... [Read More]

Marla Frederick on Race, Gender, Religious Broadcasting and Social Media

April 26, 2016April 26, 2016

Nyasha Junior talks with Marla F. Frederick Dr. Marla Frederick is Professor of African and African American Studies and the Study of Religion ... [Read More]

A Conversation on Race, Faith and Community

December 17, 2015December 18, 2015

Charles Halton talks with Leslie Dawn Callahan, Willie James Jennings, Christopher Doucot and Barbara Savage during the 30th anniversary celebration of the Grawemeyer ... [Read More]

Conversations in Black: Alexander G. Weheliye

September 1, 2015September 1, 2015

Monica Miller and Christopher Driscoll talk with Alexander G. Weheliye about the world of Man, racializing assemblages, and the black body. ※ Dr. Alexander G. Weheliye is ... [Read More]

MRBlog | Audrey DuBose and The Demand for Black Forgiveness

July 30, 2015

By Thomas J. Whitley We are trying to raise self-confident children for long lives, not hashtags for slaughter. So wrote Gary Younge on the ... [Read More]

The Hold: Or, Charleston USA (A Poem for the Emanuel 9)

July 1, 2015July 1, 2015

J. Kameron Carter with a poetic commentary on the Charleston tragedy The Hold, or, Charleston USA (A Poem for the Emanuel 9) there’s ... [Read More]

First Impressions #37: Kelly Brown Douglas

June 9, 2015June 9, 2015

Dave Krueger talks with Kelly Brown Douglas about her book Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God. Douglas is an ... [Read More]

Conversations in Black: K. Merinda Simmons

May 12, 2015May 12, 2015

Monica Miller and Christopher Driscoll talk about Post-Blackness with K. Merinda Simmons K. Merinda Simmons is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University ... [Read More]

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