Category: Religion

  • Mixed-Race and Modernity in Colonial India: Changing Concepts of Hybridity Across Empires Routledge 2012-02-29 208 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-50429-4 Adrian Carton Centre for Cultural Research University of Western Sydney, Australia This book traces changing concepts of mixed-race identity in early colonial India by contrasting Portuguese, British and French colonial spaces. Starting in the sixteenth century,…

  • How Jews Became White Folks and What That says about Race in America Rutgers University Press 1998-10-01 272 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-2589-1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-2590-7 Karen Brodkin, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology University of California, Los Angeles A wide-ranging and provocative assessment of how race, class, and gender shape social identity in the United States. We…

  • A Mulatto Area Gets Own School The New York Times 1962-09-16 page 73 Hedrick Smith, Special to the New York Times Desegregation Moves Roi Louisiana Caste System BURAS, La., Sept. 13—Freda’s Hi-Lo Bar sits just off State Highway 23 as the road chases the Mississippi River on its last 100 miles from the suburbs of…

  • “May she read liberty in your eyes?” Beecher, Boucicault and the Representation and Display of Antebellum Women’s Racially Indeterminate Bodies Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism Volume 26, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages. 127-144 DOI: 10.1353/dtc.2012.0007 Lisa Merrill, Professor of Speech Communication, Rhetoric, Performance Studies Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York Prelude In 1856 Reverend Henry…

  • Passing free Boston College Magazine Summer 2003 Black in the South, Irish in the North, The Healys Slipped the Bonds of Race in Civil War America James M. O’Toole, Associate Professor of History Boston College When Michael Morris Healy and Eliza Clark entered into a common-law union in 1829, they violated perhaps the most powerful…

  • Multiracial Jews Moving Beyond Isolation The Jewish Week 2012-06-12 Julie Wiener, Associate Editor Now 12 percent of the community, racially diverse Jewish households making their way into mainstream — but still less ‘engaged’ than others. When Rabbi/Cantor Angela Buchdahl was growing up — the daughter of a white Jewish father and a Korean-American mother —…

  • Slaves, Cannibals, and Infected Hyper-Whites: The Race and Religion of Zombies Anthropological Quarterly Volume 85, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages 457-486 DOI: 10.1353/anq.2012.0021 Elizabeth McAlister, Associate Professor of Religion, African American Studies and American Studies Wesleyan University The first decade of the new millennium saw renewed interest in popular culture featuring zombies. This essay shows…

  • Black White & Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self Riverhead Press (an imprint of Penguin Press) 2002-01-08 336 pages 5.23 x 8.03in ISBN 9781573229074 Rebecca Walker ALA Best Book for Young Adults The Civil Rights movement brought author Alice Walker and lawyer Mel Leventhal together, and in 1969 their daughter, Rebecca, was born. Some saw…

  • Sharing Outsider Status and a Style of Coping The New York Times 2012-05-25 Jodi Kantor The United States quietly passed a milestone this spring, mostly lost amid the clamor of the presidential race: for the first time, neither party’s candidate is a white Protestant. The contenders are both from outsider groups that were once persecuted,…

  • Black Mormons and the Politics of Identity The New York Times 2012-05-22 Susan Saulny SALT LAKE CITY — When Marguerite Driessen, a professor here, entered Brigham Young University in the early 1980s, she was the first black person many Mormon students had ever met, and she spent a good bit of her college time debunking…