Category: Religion

  • Sonic spaces: Inscribing “coloured” voices in the Karoo, South Africa University of Pennsylvania 2006 228 pages Publication Number: AAT 3246175 Marie R. Jorritsma A Dissertation in Music Presented to the Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy A common stereotype of those classified…

  • Bantum talks race, religion The Falcon Seattle Pacific University Volume 82, Issue 25 (2011-05-18) Nicole Critchley New book looks to redeem ‘mulatto’ Mulattos defy classification, said Assistant Professor of Theology Brian Bantum. Part black and part white, they do not fit neatly into any preconceived notions of our society—and that, in part, is what makes…

  • Martin de Porres Wikipedia Martin de Porres (December 9, 1579 – November 3, 1639) was a lay brother of the Dominican Order who was beatified in 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI and canonized in 1962 by Pope John XXIII. He is the patron saint of mixed-race people and all those seeking interracial harmony.   He…

  • Recasting the Tribe of Ishmael: The Role of Indianapolis’s Nineteenth-Century Poor in Twentieth-Century Eugenics Indiana Magazine of History Volume 104, Issue 1 (March 2008) pages 36-64 ISSN: 0019-66737 Elsa F. Kramer The Tribe of Ishmael is a biblically derived moniker for hundreds of impoverished late-19th-century immigrants in Indianapolis whose applications for unrestricted public relief during an…

  • Living in the Borderlands EthicsDaily.com 2007-01-19 Miguel A. De La Torre, Professor of Social Ethics Iliff School of Theology, Denver, Colorado De La Torre La Torre says U.S.-Mexico border isn’t only barrier facing Latinos. From Tijuana on the Pacific Ocean to Matamoros on the Gulf of Mexico runs a 1,833-mile border separating the United States…

  • The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary Rutgers University Press 2011-01-19 248 pages, 3 photographs Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4783-1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4782-4 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8135-4989-7 Lori Harrison-Kahan, Full-time Adjunct Faculty in English Boston College During the first half of the twentieth century, American Jews demonstrated a commitment to racial justice as well as an…

  • Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas Ashgate Publishing July 2007 218 pages 219 x 153 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7546-5189-5 Edited by Nora E. Jaffary, Associate Professor of History Concordia University, Montreal, Canada When Europe introduced mechanisms to control New World territories, resources and populations, women-whether African, indigenous, mixed race, or European-responded…

  • The Catholic Church and the Formation of Metis Identity Past Imperfect Volume 9 (2001) pages 65-87 Jacinthe Duval This essay explores the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and the Metis in the Red River colony in the nineteenth century. It demonstrates how missionaries, via their intellectual artifacts, have been responsible for shaping popular contemporary…

  • Oreo Northeastern University Press (now University Press of New England) 2000 (Originially published in 1974.) 224 pages 6 x 9″ Fran Ross Forward by Harryette Mullen This uproariously funny satire about relations between African Americans and Jews is as fresh and outrageous today as when it was first published in 1974. Born to a Jewish…

  • Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, & American Law (Anderson review) The Catholic Historical Review Volume 97, Number 1 (January 2011) pages 179-180 E-ISSN: 1534-0708, Print ISSN: 0008-8080 R. Bentley Anderson, S. J. Associate Professor of African and African-American Studies Fordham University In Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, & American…