Race Archives | Contending Modernities

Empire and Race in Comparative Religious Ethics

Series: Comparative Religious Ethics and Decolonial Thought

Nicholas Andersen
January 22, 2021February 1, 2024

Comparativists ought to ask how imperial and racial formations have shaped the settings within which peoples have acted and thought, regarding them not as wholly determinative but as nevertheless integral components of peoples’ ethical lives.

Sovereignty, Blackness, and the Decolonial Task: Thought Experiments

Series: Decolonizing Continental Philosophy of Religion

Joseph Winters
July 23, 2020February 1, 2024

Black radical practice revises, reinterprets, and in some cases refuses the logic of sovereignty.

Weaponizing Antisemitism under the Guise of Care

Series: Trump and Dual Loyalty

Joyce Dalsheim
September 16, 2019September 16, 2019

Suggesting that Jews are disloyal to the modern state of Israel is a form of antisemitism, thinly veiled in terms of caring about Jews.

Border-Crossers: Interrogating Boundaries through Bodies

Series: Ansari Conference 2018

Lailatul Fitriyah
January 16, 2019August 23, 2019

What we can infer from this panel is that the political, racial, and religious markers which compose borders are also etched and negotiated on the bodies of the marginalized others as ‘border-crossers.’

US border wall meets the Pacific in Tijuana.

Welcoming Complexity Together

Series: Ansari Conference 2018

Dania Straughan
January 11, 2019January 21, 2019

Religion and flourishing at the 2018 inaugural conference for the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion.

The Shabbat Massacre Is Not Merely About Religion

Atalia Omer
October 30, 2018August 7, 2019

The Shabbat massacre is not only a hate crime. It is also the latest expression of racialized Christian construction of boundaries.

Islamophobia Is Not Racism

Series: Reexamining Religion and Modernities

Melani McAlister
October 2, 2018October 4, 2018

Imperialism and structural inequalities are highly relevant to the post-Cold War framing of Islam on a global scale, but neither race or “phobia” captures the full complexity of the power dynamics at play.

2018 World Cup and Multicultural Belgium

Nadia Fadil
July 12, 2018October 4, 2018

It is precisely this absence of a unified national project that allows for a triumphant recuperation of national symbols by ethnic minorities.

On Crossroads: Learnings from Modernity, Feminisms, and Transrational Peace

Series: Decolonizing Narratives

Paula Facci
June 29, 2018

Scholars and practitioners of feminist, gender, and critical race theory have long questioned the self-righteousness, rigid categorizations, and violence of dominant modern discourse.