White Supremacy in the Classroom

Published in Religious Studies News

Photo: Women’s March in Seneca Falls, NY, on Jan 21, 2017, by Lindy Glennon

One way to facilitate honest conversations about contemporary white supremacy and privilege in the religious studies classroom is to examine and challenge the racial scripts of color-blind racism. To this end, I use Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s (2013) Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America at the conclusion of my course on religion in the modern civil rights movement. It has proven to be an excellent text to illuminate the shifting and persistent nature of white supremacy in post-civil rights America ...

Read more ...