Enshrining Black Countermodernism & New Deal Skepticism
J.J. Butts’ new work, Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project, provides a close reading of the ways
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black intellectual history
Womanist Theology and A Black Woman’s Intellectual Movement
This post is part of our forum on “Womanist Theology.“ My grandmother stood neither silent nor conspicuous in her daily
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Introduction to the Womanist Theology Forum
This post is part of our forum on “Womanist Theology.“ When Alice Walker wrote the definition of a Womanist, in 1983,
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John Potts and Radical Student Activism
Black educator Dr. John Foster Potts may be a largely unknown figure today, but in Jim Crow-era South Carolina he
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Why Black People Believe the End is Near
Recently Pew Research Center released the results of a study on “How Religion Intersects with Americans’ Views on the Environment.” In it,
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