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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Antisemitism Is Our Problem
Editor Samuel Loncar Reflects on Christianity’s Antisemitic Legacy Tree of Life Synagogue Daniel Stein Joyce Fienberg Richard Gottfried Rose Mallinger Jerry Rabinowitz brothers,
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Tracing the Construction of Arab Identity in Medieval Iraq
Jessica Mutter reviews Peter Webb’s Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam Who is an Arab? Earlier this year a handful
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How Toni Morrison Hunts the White Whale
Dan Grossman on Toni Morrison’s The Origin of Others Why aren’t literary critics on the nightly news? America has become a battleground over what
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Race, Difference, and Religion: Is There a Universal Humanity?
Ruth Jackson reviews Theodore Vial’s Modern Religion, Modern Race “The cry of equality pulls everyone down” — Iris Murdoch In an episode from
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I Am Not Your Negro: A Review
Ciahnan Darrell on race in America The lie called race makes Judases of us all, bleeding the human until all that remains is
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