What language and frameworks do we draw upon to name the impact of the violent conflation of global state-sanctioned antiblack…
Pandemics and the meaning of Black religion
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Antiblackness as religion: Black living, Black dying, and Covid-19
This forum explores the white American ritual of Black death. It also ruminates on how scholars of religion reckon with…
A wedding in a cemetery: Judaism, terror, and pandemic
American Jews have no scapegoats or sacrificial lambs to offer in response to Covid-19 nor desire to hold a shvartze…
Material mourning in the secular sculpture garden
The memorialization of Soviet soldiers in Berlin was not simply a functional political tactic; it was an expression of national…