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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Secularism in Black – by Joseph Winters
Joseph Winters on Jonathon Kahn and Vincent Lloyd’s Race and Secularism in America Secularism appears to be a fairly self-evident concept. Whether one
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First Impressions #98: Su’ad Abdul Khabeer on Race, Hip Hop, and Muslim Cool
African American culture plays a critical role in the construction Muslim American identity. Dave Krueger speaks with Su’ad Abdul Khabeer about her new
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First Impressions #97: Emily Suzanne Clark on Afro-Creole Spiritualism in New Orleans
Messages from the spirit world offered an Afro-Creole community in New Orleans a forum for political activism inspired by republican ideals. Dave
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MRBlog | Creating Race
By Thomas J. Whitley We can definitely define the race of people. So said North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory back in May in
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MRBlog | The Price of Patriotism
By Thomas J. Whitley Patriotism is a luxury that only the privileged can afford. For it is only the privileged who can whitewash
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First Impressions #91: Josef Sorett on A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics
Most of the major African American literary and cultural movements of the twentieth century have been understood and interpreted as secular. In reality, religion
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