Category: Religion

  • All four books under review here are concerned with telling dramatic tales about singular, real lives. But they are also books about race. They are driven by the larger goal of making the individual story stand for more than itself.

  • “Little White Lie: A Film about Dual Identity and Family Secrets” with Lacey Schwartz Taube Center for Jewish Studies Stanford University Center For Educational Research (Room 101) 520 Galvez Mall Stanford, California 2015-10-28, 19:00 PDT (Local Time) “Between Race and Religion: Contemporary American Jewish Life” series with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and…

  • The myth of race The Cripplegate 2015-10-22 Jesse Johnson, Teaching Pastor Immanuel Bible Church, Springfield, Virginia One of the most harmful effects of evolutionary theory is the concept of race. Despite having zero scientific validity to it, the idea that human beings can be categorized into general “races” that are supposedly connected to their biology…

  • Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film: Race, Sex and Afro-Religiosity Palgrave Macmillan July 2015 216 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781137454171 Ebook (EPUB) ISBN: 9781137454195 Ebook (PDF) ISBN: 9781137454188 Montré Aza Missouri, Associate Professor in Film Howard University, Washington, D.C. Contributing to emerging scholarship on representations of race, gender, sexuality and religion in film and media, Black…

  • I had heard of Wild Goose Festival from friends who had braved the woods in years past, but I wasn’t sure it was my kind of thing. I certainly didn’t expect to be a part of the gathering anytime soon. Then my friend Micky asked me to attend. She wanted to know if I would…

  • This is not another essay about how hard it is to be light skinned in a dark man’s world. Why? Because the suggestion that this is a dark man’s world is ridiculous. Unless you’ve had your head up your butt, we quite clearly do not live in a version of the universe where overall it…

  • Hanif Kureishi: ‘We’re all mixed-race now The Independent 2011-10-23 James Kidd Immigration, Islamism, multi-culturalism – as his new collected stories attests, the hottest topics of the day have long been the bedrock of Hanif Kureishi’s fiction. Just don’t get him started on the joys of ‘Big Brother’… Hanif Kureishi is, by some accounts, a hard…

  • Something Old, Something New BBC Radio 4 2015-10-06 Johny Pitts, Host Peter Meanwell, Producer Recorded & mixed! Finished @BBCRadio4 (Engineer Steve Hellier with Johny Pitts) Source: Peter Meanwell From Sheffield to South Carolina, Johny Pitts explores alternative Black British identity. What happens when your Dad’s an African-American soul star [Richie Pitts] and your Mum’s a…

  • Dr. Wanda Wyporska on Witchcraft Persecution WandaWyporskaWitchcraft 2014-09-07 Dr. Wanda Wyporska A show reel of Dr Wanda Wyporska talking about witchcraft for the BBC BAME expert days – 2014

  • Every Family Has Its Secrets: Lacey Schwartz Connects with Film Forward Audiences in Taiwan Sundance Film Forward 2015-09-24 Lacey Schwartz, Director Little White Lie This Sundance Film Forward trip to Taiwan marked the Asian Premiere of Little White Lie. It also was my first time ever in Asia. The things that people seemed to say…