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Anthea Butler

Anthea Butler is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent book is White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America (UNC Press, 2021).

Anthea Butler, Election 2012August 30, 2012

Ann Romney’s Big Love on the Big RNC Stage

By Anthea Butler

Will Mitt’s more likable half use her prominence to help her LDS sisters?

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Anthea Butler, Election 2012August 29, 2012

Choose Right, Not Racism, Gov. Romney

By Anthea Butler

A letter to the Republican candidate on his birth certificate joke.

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Anthea ButlerAugust 11, 2012

Leadership Conference of Women Religious: No Retreat, No Surrender

By Anthea Butler

Nuns say: “They can crush a few flowers, but they cannot hold back the springtime.”

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Anthea Butler, Election 2012August 9, 2012

Conservatives Waiting for Palin Rapture

By Anthea Butler

Will she miss her date with destiny?

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Anthea ButlerAugust 9, 2012

Herman Cain Sings For the Press

By Anthea Butler

Jesus may be looking beyond the candidate’s faults, but we’re not.

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Anthea Butler, Election 2012August 9, 2012

The Ghost of Rev. Wright

By Anthea Butler

The racial code in Romney’s new ad.

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Anthea Butler, Election 2012August 9, 2012

Is Herman Cain’s Long-Running Minstrel Show Finally at an End?

By Anthea Butler

Assessing the evidence that he’s not a card-carrying member of the religious right.

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Culture, Politics/LawAugust 8, 2012

HBO’s Game Change Hits, But Sarah Palin Pic Misses Religion

By Anthea Butler

Game Change reveals what no one else apparently has the chutzpah to say: that Sarah Palin was the opening salvo in the the dissolution and destruction of the Republican Party.

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Anthea Butler, Election 2012August 8, 2012

Sarah Palin: Obama Wants to Make White People Slaves

By Anthea Butler

The “Palin Whisperer” breaks it down.

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Anthea Butler, Election 2012August 6, 2012

Mitt Romney Plays the Tin Man at the NAACP Convention

By Anthea Butler

If you can’t at least stiffly sway to the Hammond B3 organ there is truly no hope for you.

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