What role did religion play in sparking the call for civil rights? Was the African American church a motivating force or a calming eddy?
The conventional view among scholars of the period is that religion as a source for social activism was marginal, conservative, or pacifying.
Not so, argues Johnny E. Williams. Focusing on the state of Arkansas as typical in the role of ecclesiastical activism, his book argues that black religion from the period of slavery through the era of segregation provided theological resources that motivated and sustained preachers and parishioners battling...
What role did religion play in sparking the call for civil rights? Was the African American church a motivating force or a calming eddy?
Although the human genome exists apart from society, knowledge about it is produced through socially-created language and interactions. As such, genomicists thinking is informed by their inability to escape the wake of the race concept. This book investigates how racism makes genomics and how genomics makes racism and race, and the consequences of these constructions. Specifically, Williams explores how racial ideology works in genomics. The simple assumption that frames the book is that race as an ideology justifying a system of oppression is persistently recreated as a practical and...
Although the human genome exists apart from society, knowledge about it is produced through socially-created language and interactions. As such, genom...
Although the human genome exists apart from society, genomicists' thinking is informed by their inability to escape the wake of the "race" concept. The book reveals that genomicists' preoccupation with race--regardless of good or ill intent--contributes to its perception as a category of differences that is scientifically rigorous.
Although the human genome exists apart from society, genomicists' thinking is informed by their inability to escape the wake of the "race" concept. Th...
