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Just Give ‘Em a Little Jesus: Black Marriage Meets White Paternalism

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…to draw sweeping conclusions about churchgoing and recidivism rates among African-American and Latino men, arguing that faith plays a key role in helping them “flourish.” In a recent article in The Atlantic, entitled “How the Church Allows Black Men to Thrive,” the authors cite the higher levels of religiosity among African-American men, claiming that “compared to their less religious peers, these 6 million or so black men are significantly more…

The Best Books Media of 2008

By Jeff Sharlet

…historian at the University of Rochester Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African American Studies. From Democratic Party outreach to evangelical voters to the smackdown of Jeremiah Wright to Tucker Carlson’s assertion that “black churches are basically political organizations,” we encountered a maelstrom of media references to the “black church” in 2008. For anyone who followed this coverage and questioned what such a monolithic term…

A Tea Party Case Study: Jacksonville’s Divisive Mayoral Race

By Julie Ingersoll

…p Islamophobia. The racism isn’t as blatant as opposing Brown because he’s African American. And, of course, they’ll point the African Americans they do support. But the real hysteria about “outsiders” is about race. What it comes down to is the tea party doesn’t like a group facilitating (and according to her own report we are talking about walking precincts and giving rides to the polls to legitimate voters) turnout among African Americans. A ha…

Enjoy the Kosher Collard Greens, But Understand This: Hebrew Israelites Have Something to Say to the Rest of the Jewish Community

By Andre E. Key, Walter Isaac, and Tamar Manasseh

…ssage to the world of hip-hop has foreshadowed Hebrew Israelite* and other African Hebrew communities’ more contemporary message to mainstream Judaism: “We have something important to say!” As W.E.B. DuBois reminds us in The Souls of Black Folk, African-American spirituality has often been treated as a problem by Western society. The Black indigenous forms of Christianity, Islam and Judaism that developed during both the Antebellum and post-Emanci…

Global LGBT Recap: Religious Leaders Support Persecution as Countries Vie in Homophobia Olympics

By Peter Montgomery

…any other basis – we need to unleash the full potential of everyone. As an African who has been around a long time, I understand the resistance to these ideas. But I can also step back and see that the larger course of human history, especially of the past century or so, is one of expanding human rights and freedoms. African leaders should be at the helm of this, and not hold back. Not at this critical moment. Chissano ended his letter quoting Nel…

Reimagining Twentieth Century Harlem as a Jewish Mecca

By Jeffrey Gurock

…e neighborhood, the tensions that flared up between the two groups, Jewish-African American interaction in the music and theatrical scene and, of course, charts the beginnings of Jewish return to Harlem during this present-day gentrification of New York City. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? There has never been one Jewish voice or vision nor one African American voice or opinion about the textured and complicated relations…

Can Anti-Mormon Prejudice be Compared to Anti-Black Racism?

By Joanna Brooks

…ace gauge racism is in terms of life chances and outcomes. Is a child born African American in this country statistically more likely to experience different life outcomes than a child born into a non-African-American Mormon family? (Thinking about how religion and race intersect for black Mormons would add a new wrinkle to the analysis.) Analytically, just by the numbers, just for the fact of being born black, a child is statistically more likely…

Saint John Coltrane: Fifty Years of ‘A Love Supreme’

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…the African Orthodox Church, a denomination that began in the 1920s as an African-American split from the Episcopal church. The African Orthodox denomination continues in operation, albeit in relatively small numbers. The Coltrane church does not, as some might imagine, “worship” John Coltrane any more than a church called St. Mark’s worships Mark. The African Orthodox church officially canonized Coltrane, so the designation of “Saint John Coltra…

Richard Land Steps Down, But Not Out of the Culture Wars

By Aaron Weaver

…ex. Early in his tenure, Land hosted a race summit to hear the concerns of African-American Southern Baptists. Six years later, he spearheaded an effort to publicly apologize for the denomination’s support of slavery and racist past. Not all applauded this racial reconciliation resolution. African-American journalist Bill Maxwell wondered: If Southern Baptists are serious about atoning for their historical sins, how can they also join Republicans…

Mitt’s Jesus, Barack’s Jesus, and Why Christ’s Color Matters

By Joanna Brooks

…mocked, and parodied (as has been the case on television in Good Times and South Park, and in films such as Talladega Nights and Dogma). Ed Blum: Post-racial is both an illustration and an illusion. On one hand, it means we have moved past the overt and blatant racism of the past that kept African American women and men from voting booths and housing areas. It also hides, though, the power white supremacy in history and whiteness today. When it…