Category: Religion

  • The story of Mary Musgrove (1700-1764), a Creek Indian-English woman struggling for success in colonial society, is an improbable one.

  • Capturing the Spirit World on Film: Albert Chong’s artistic recipe blends Jamaica, Catholicism, Santeria and America in an eclectic artistic stew The Los Angeles Times 1993-10-10 Leah Ollman When photographer and installation artist Albert Chong was about 6 years old, his parents bought a new house in Kingston, Jamaica. Chong’s father invited a Catholic priest…

  • The Mestizo Mind: The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization Routledge 2002-09-06 272 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-92879-3 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-92878-6 Serge Gruzinski, Research Director National Scientific Research Center (CNRS, Paris) Mestizo: a person of mixed blood; specifically, a person of mixed European and American Indian ancestry. Serge Gruzinski, the renowned historian of Latin America, offers…

  • Marriage, Melanin, and American Racialism Reviews in American History Volume 41, Number 2, June 2013 pages 282-291 DOI: 10.1353/rah.2013.0048 Heidi Ardizzone, Assistant Professor of American Studies St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri Adele Logan Alexander, Parallel Worlds: The Remarkable Gibbs-Hunts and the Enduring (In)significance of Melanin. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010. 375 pages. Photographs,…

  • Negro-White Marriages Here Show Rise Despite Problems of Prejudice The New York Times 1963-10-18 Fred Powledge Marriages between Negroes and whites have been increasing in New York and have become a poignant part of the life of the city. The precise number of such marriages may never be known. Documents on file at the City…

  • I’m a kosher burrito, says new mixed-race LA mayor The Jewish Chronicle Online London, England 2013-05-30 Tom Tugend Eric Garcetti, the first Jewish mayor elected by Los Angeles voters, jokingly refers to himself as a “kosher burrito”, the latter word referring to a popular Mexican dish. The son of a Jewish mother and a father…

  • “Colorblindness” Overlooks Structural Inequality Jesus For Revolutionaries: A Blog About Race, Social Justice, and Christianity 2013-04-30 Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles Good morning.  Thanks to all who have been tracking with our multi-part series on Critical Race Theory and Christianity.  It seems like…

  • New Demographic Perspectives on Studying Intermarriage in the United States Contemporary Jewry Published Online: May 2013 pages 1-17 DOI: 10.1007/s12397-013-9103-9 Bruce A. Phillips, Professor of Jewish Communal Service Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles The study of Jewish intermarriage has largely ignored the measurement conventions prevalent in the field of demography such as…

  • Are the Tsarnaevs White? The Daily Beast 2013-04-24 Peter Beinart, Senior Political Writer and Associate Professor of Journalism City University of New York also Editor-in-chief Open Zion In a word, yes. But why is this so hard for Americans to grasp? Peter Beinart on our country’s long track record of conflating religion and race. The…

  • Critical Race Theory and Christianity: Race Is A Social Construction Jesus For Revolutionaries: A Blog About Race, Social Justice, and Christianity 2013-04-16 Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles Good morning.  It’s taken me a little longer than usual to write this new post, but…