Category: Religion

  • Racial Theories in Context (Second Edition) Cognella 2013 224 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60927-056-8 Edited by: Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies University of California, Irvine This book presents a critical framework for understanding how and why race matters — past, present, and future. The readings trace the historical…

  • “La Negrita,” Queen of the Ticos: The Black Roots of Costa Rica’s Patron Saint The Americas Volume 69, Number 3, January 2013 pages 323-355 DOI: 10.1353/tam.2013.0025 Russell Lohse, Assistant Professor of History Pennsylvania State University In sharp contrast to her mestizo and mulatto neighbors, Costa Rica is one of a handful of Latin American countries…

  • The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism Indiana University Press 2007-05-22 320 pages 22 b&w photos 6.125 x 9.25 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-253-21927-5; Cloth ISBN: 978-0-253-34902-6 Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz exposes and challenges the common assumptions about whom and what Jews are, by presenting in their own voices, Jews of color from the Iberian…

  • Can Drake Save the Bar Mitzvah? The Jewish Week Blog: Well Versed 2012-04-12 Eric Herschthal When Drake’s new video, “HYFR,” dropped [was released] over the weekend—in which the Jewish, biracial hip-hop superstar raps at a bar mitzvah—I was thrilled. Initially. For years, pop culture references to the Jewish rite of passage have been stuck in…

  • Kodiak Kreol: Communities of Empire in Early Russian America Cornell University Press 2010-08-05 248 pages 7 Illustrations 6.1 x 9.3 in ISBN-10: 0801446422; ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-4642-9 Gwenn A. Miller, Assistant Professor of History College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts From the 1780s to the 1820s, Kodiak Island, the first capital of Imperial Russia’s only overseas…

  • In “Redeeming Mulatto,” Bantum reconciles the particular with the transcendent to account for the world as it is: mixed. He constructs a remarkable new Christological vision of Christ as tragic mulatto—one who confronts the contrived delusions of racial purity and the violence of self-assertion and emerges from a “hybridity” of flesh and spirit, human and…

  • Race, Religion Collide in 2012 Campaign The Associated Press 2012-05-05 Jesse Washington, National Writer, Race and Ethnicity Rachel Zoll, National Religion Writer How unthinkable it was, not so long ago, that a presidential election would pit a candidate fathered by an African against another condemned as un-Christian. And yet, here it is: Barack Obama vs.…

  • Forecast of Miscegenation Los Angeles Herald 1906-07-24 page 6, column 3 Source: Library of Congress: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers In the course of a sermon delivered last Sunday before n local negro audience. Bishop Hamilton of the Methodist church said: “It might create a sensation if I should say a union of the races…

  • New Latin American pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio not a person of color? New York Amsterdam News New York, New York 2013-03-21 Courtenay Brown, Special to the AmNews The installation of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis I on March 13 caused a stir of questions regarding his race. Yes, he was the first pope from…

  • Ben-Ur awarded study grant by Hadassah-Brandeis Institute In the Loop: News for Staff and Faculty University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2012-12-13 Associate professor Aviva Ben-Ur of the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies has been awarded a Senior Grant in History from the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute for her book project “Eurafrican Identity in a Jewish Society:…