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It’s Not the Taj, It’s the Tour Guide: Some Musings on a Trip to India
Almost exactly two years ago, I had the wonderful opportunity to accompany a group of my students to India for a course designed to specifically examine how notions of “justice” operate in an Indian...
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Symbols and the Confederate Flag
I am not a fan of the Confederate Flag. While I have spent all but two of the past 28 years in states that joined the Confederacy, I grew up in a Border State with parents from another Border State,...
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At the Painting’s Edge
Our campus has a new painting, hanging in the lobby of our main library, depicting the University of Alabama prior to the Civil War — near the end of which most of the campus was burned down by...
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PC Power
Books can be the best Christmas gifts, at least in my humble opinion. I have already finished one novel that I received for Christmas, Singapore Exile Murders by F. van Wyck Mason. Written, published,...
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Names and Things
Have you heard? There’s a new theory as to where the term “eskimo” originated. Click the above image to read the brief article, but here’s a snippet: So, contrary to earlier etymologies that anchored...
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Of Victims and Agents
I’m hardly the first to point out how curious the current coverage is of white communities in decline, dealing with poverty, alienation, and, in some cases, severe drug addiction, as opposed to the...
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Were We ‘Bamboozled’ by “Norman”?
by Lissa Skitolsky When I read the glowing New York Times review of the recent movie Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (2017) by the Israeli-American director Joseph Cedar,...
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Is There Neo-Nazi DNA? Ancestry Tests and Biological Essentialism in American...
by Martie Smith Roberts The vision of white racial purity that drove the Nazi regime to perpetrate genocide in the mid-twentieth century has persisted into the present, most recently made visible by...
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Was Gandhi a Racist?
A group of students in Ottawa have demanded the removal of a statue of Gandhi on the campus of Carleton University because he expressed “anti-black” ideas when he worked in South Africa. Others defend...
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Team AOC or Team Pelosi? Also, #Trump’s-a-Racist
Last week saw yet another round of attacks against 4 recently elected congresspersons, all women of color. While these members of the so-called “squad” — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), Ilhan Omar,...
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Critical Religion and the Critical Study of Religion: A Response to Galen...
By Matt Sheedy This is part-two of a two-part response to Watts and Mosurinjohn’s essay “Can Critical Religion Play by Its Own Rules? Why There Must Be More Ways to Be ‘Critical’ in the Study of...
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