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25 to 1: People of Color Experiences in Unitarian Universalism 1980-2005

25-to-1-people-of-color-experiences-in-unitarian-u.pdf

The odds of meeting a person of color in the Unitarian Universalists Association is 25 to 1, says Santos-Lyons. In a liberal faith with a commitment to racial justice a community of people of color has not materialized. But there are people of color…

Develop Louisville: Redlining Lousiville (Open Data)

Redlining refers to the practice of denying loans in certain neighborhoods because of socioeconomic characteristics rather than physical, design, or structural characteristics.The Home Owner's Loan Corporation (HOLC) was created in 1933 to aid the…

Redlining Louisville: Racial Capitalism and Real Estate

This is an impeccably researched history of redlining in Louisville, KY with maps. The About section contains the narrative history with quotes from books. The richly detailed sections of web-based maps that one can zoom in or out and manipulate in…

The Case for Scholarly Reparations

Race, the history of sociology, and the marginalized man – lessons from Aldon Morris’ book “The Scholar Denied”

Tags: Book Reviews

Theological reflections on multi-religious identity

This article attempts to provide a theological assessment of multireligious identity, especially in the context of the Hindu-Christian encounters. The paper rests on recent post-colonialist literature on religion and assumes that the so-called…

Why We Confuse Race and Ethnicity: A Lexicographer’s Perspective

Using dictionaries, this article traces the origins and use of the words 'race' and 'ethnicity' and our evolving understandings of racial categorization and cultural identity. Race is the older word and ethnicity the newer one. race was the preferred…

Anti-racism and Mission

Laura Mariko Cheifetz was the 2016 keynote speaker at the Presbytery of Los Ranchos (Southern California) Mission Summit in Tustin, Feb. 6, 2016. This is the complete text of her talk as well as the handout with the Full Cycle of Mission of graphic…

Tags: Doctrine of Discovery, Reparation, Speech, Stories

Shared Values and Particular Identities in Anti-Racist Education

LawrenceBlumSharedValuesParticularIdentitiesAntiRacistEducation.pdf

Excerpt: In this essay, I would like to address some issues on educating about, and against, racism. Nationally prominent moral educators in the United States (such as those connected with the character education movement) have generally given…

Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor

Originally published in Portuguese, this edition is in English. "In his latest work, the noted Latin American theologian Leonardo Boff extends the intuitions of liberation theology, showing how they contribute to answering urgent questions of…

Jesus Would Be Jim Crowed: Bishop Robert Lawson on Race and Religion in the Harlem Renaissance

This article first identifies Lawson’s place within clerical discourses of race in early Pentecostalism. The Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, an interracial Oneness Pentecostal body, rent asunder over race in 1924 owing to Jim Crow laws and overt…

The Difficulty of Being Simone Biles

According to O'Neale, Simone Biles might be the best gymnast ever. But her hardest trick may have been tuning out issues of family and race. In doing so, the young Simone Biles is also emerging as a torchbearer, thought leader and inspiring role…

Pentecost 2020, Liturgical Watercolor: Artist Statement

Marcus Hong reflects Acts 2 chapter 2, the violent disruption of the original Pentecost, and today's Pentecost 2020 protests in support of Black Lives Matter. This is art-in-action, helping and inspiring us to action. Direct URL:…

The Representation of White Antiracism Activism in Children's Picture Books

This study looked at how white antiracism activism is portrayed to children through one of the most popular literacy tools, the picture book. Both written text and images in children's literature can contribute to understandings of race, especially…

Citrus Post: Newsletter of the Presbyterian Women of the Presbytery of Riverside

Winter 2017 (February)

White Privilege

Tags: Pastoral letters and charges

In the USA (Art print)

"When situations turn horrible and I find it hard to move on, I usually draw my way through it. .." So wrote Mary Engelbreit Licensed Studios and shared In the USA, an art print, made in the wake of the racial unrest in their hometown of…

Tags: Art Prints

The Forgotten Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Send Astronauts to Space

A new book "Hidden Figures" documents the lives and accomplishments of NASA’s black “human computers” whose work was at the heart of the country’s greatest battles and this is an article on Smithsonian.com about it. "As America stood on the brink of…

The Changing Spaces of Racialized Contestation in Brampton, Ontario; A Multimedia Analysis

Demographic changes, most notably changes in ethnic composition, can have major implications for the successful functioning of a community. Brampton, Ontario, is an example of one of these changing communities. Using two media sources: one…

Cultural Humility Versus Cultural Competence: A Critical Distinction in Defining Physician Training Outcomes in Multicultural Education

Melissa Harris-Perry on Racism and Charleston Shooting

Melissa Harris-Perry highlights the victims who were killed, powerful quotes by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 'ethic of love' and quick forgiveness that the family offered to the guilty. A call for collective repentance to change the "system,…

The Changing Face of America: picture book by famed photographer Martin Schoeller illustrates 'melting pot' of races in U.S.

Try to picture a typical American. You're going to struggle.
In a collection of faces of all tints, hues, eye colours, and hair shades, renowned portrait artist Martin Schoeller has captured the nation's diversity. The headshots, set against a plain…

Michelle Alexander on The New Jim Crow, at Union Theological Seminary (Videos)

Michelle Alexander's powerful call for America to be born again - to develop a new moral consensus in the US based on a movement of who we are as children of God. This is a call for a multi-faith, multi-cultural theology of liberation.

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Visualizing Race, Identity,and Change

Proof copy of a feature in National Geographic‘s October 125th anniversary issue that looks at the changing face of America in an article by Lise Funderburg, with portraits of multiracial families by Martin Schoeller, that celebrates the beauty of…

Groundings in anti-racism : racist violence and the 'War-on-Terror' in East London by Mohan Ambikaipaker ([Austin, Tex.] : [University of Texas], [2011] Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin 2011)

Provides understanding of Black and British anti-racism. "Black anti-racism is tacitly understood -- at least by its practitioners -- as having the goal of making public institutions and the powerful accountable and answerable to the commoner, in…

Coded Messages, Dog Whistles, and Stereotype Threat: When what we say is not what we mean

Presented at Big Tent, July 30 - August 1, 2015, University of Tennessee Conference Center, Knoxville, TN.

Definitions and examples of coded messages, dog whistles, micro aggressions, and stereotype threat are given. Readings and videos…

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Social Media Conversations About Race: How social media users see, share, discuss race and the rise of hashtags like #BlackLivesMatter

The 35 page report discusses the results of a new Pew Research Center survey and three content analysis case studies of publicly available tweets. The survey found that there are significant differences in the way black and white adults use social…

Becoming-Black: Patterns and Politics of West-German Afro-Americanophilia in the late 1960s

In the late 1960s, African American culture and politics provided ‘lines of flight’ (Deleuze and Guattari) from outdated modes of subjectivity for many ‘white’ Germans; appropriating culture politics, and experimenting with forms of symbolically…

Water/Color: A Study of Race & the Water Affordability Crisis in America’s Cities

Report issued by The Thurgood Marshall Institute at the NAACP Legal Defence and Educational Fund outilining finding of a study on race and access to affordable water. Key issues discussed are water as a public good, barriers to Black homeownership,…

Life at The Intersectionality of Race, Class, & Gender

Sociology often talks about race, class, gender, and many other social attributes as though they are a single stand alone issue. However, our day-to-day lives are much more complex than that. In this post Nathan Palmer thinks back on an incident that…

Whiteness

Website hosted by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture. Includes essays and resources defining and discussing whiteness, white privilege, white supremacy, white identity, white nationalism, and white…

Talking About Race

Website hosted by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture. Website organized by subject and by audiences and their needs: Educators, Parents/Caregivers, People Committed to Equity.

Subject areas…

Being Anti-Racist

Website hosted by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture. Includes essays and resources defining and discussing types of racism, methods for moving toward being anti-racist, questions for reflection, and…

Statement from Leaders of Greater Louisville/Kentuckiana Higher Education Institutions

Accompanied by this letter: Dear Louisville Seminary Community: This afternoon (June 3, 2020), at 4:30 p.m., leaders of higher education institutions in greater Louisville and Kentuckiana will join protesters in Jefferson Square to stand in…

Achieving racial and ethnic diversity among academic and research librarians: The recruitment, retention, and advancement of librarians of color—A white paper

White paper offering recommendations that are a result of a review of the literature that builds on an ALA 2002 white paper, with a particular focus on empirically supported solutions, from the broader recruitment and retention literatures, and the…

CEDAW Local Ordinance Template

A sample CEDAW ordinance that any city can use as a template to adopt and pass CEDAW

The Two or More Races Population: 2010

24 pages. Data from the 2010 Census and Census 2000 present information on the population reporting more than one race and enable comparisons of this population from two major data points for the first time in U.S. decennial census history.1 Overall,…

The Two or More Races Population: 2010 (2010 Census Briefs)

This report looks at the changing racial and ethnic diversity of the United States of America. It is part of a series that analyzes population and housing data collected from the 2010 Census and provides a snapshot of the population reporting…

Infographic: The American Identity According To Social Media

The Atlantic Monthly article highlights what social media strategy firm Hasai put together, an infographic, not focused on individual bits of information -- phone numbers and movie preferences, email addresses and gender -- but what a bunch of data…

A Conversation on Race: A series of short films about identity in America (Videos)

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Executive Order on Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through The Federal Government

Executive Order (EO) 14091 addresses specific barriers faced by underserved communities by requiring US federal agencies to integrate equity into planning and decision-making. The EO builds upon other executive orders and directives concerning equity…

Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics by Oliver Cromwell Cox (New York, Doubleday, 1948)

xvii, 672 pages. To download a digital copy of the 1959 edition or to browse online go to: https://archive.org/details/casteclassracest00coxoContents:PrefaceIntroductionProloguePart 1: CastePart 2: ClassPart 3: Race - begins with a chapter on The…

Reflecting Jesus: Lenses and Mirrors. Program Schedule of the 2016 Summer Conference of the Presbyterian Women of the Synod of Southern California and Hawaii, Chapman University, Orange, California, July 15- 17.

The program schedule of the PWS summer conference, 2016, with only the music missing.

Agonistic Belonging: The Banality of Good, the “Alt Right” and the Need for Sympathy

Research article. Published in Open Cultural Studies 2019; 3: 1-14AbstractThis paper considers aspects of the rise of neo-fascist political sentiment across Europe. It suggests that an appropriate political response to those developments must involve…

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