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Race, Religion, and Late Democracy
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Race, Religion, and Late Democracy



September 2011 | 196 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

The killing of Osama bin Laden, the aftermath of the Arab Spring movements, and the shocking and tragic July 2011 events in Norway have exposed important questions about the meaning of democracy and its impetus: How are race, religion, and democracy linked? How are these connections expressed in real life? On the 10th anniversary of the attacks of September 11, this volume examines the symbiotic connections among race, religion, and democracy and calls for reframing the existing discourse on democracy to reflect the mutually inclusive nature of these forces. The authors show that race and religion can be sources for humanizing democratic possibilities and explore the relationship between democratic governance and commitments that citizens have to racial solidarities and religious beliefs around the world, including in the United States, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and South America. This volume will appeal to students of politics and religious studies and to a multidisciplinary scholarly audience in anthropology, political sociology, and race and cultural studies.


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Forerunner: The Campaigns and Career of Edward Brooke
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Iran’s French Revolution: Religion, Philosophy, and Crowds
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Democracy’s New Song: Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880 and the Melodramatic Imagination
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Habits of the Heart: Youth Religious Participation as Progress, Peril, or Change?
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Chadors, Feminists, Terror: The Racial Politics of U.S. Media Representations of the 1979 Iranian Women’s Movement
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The End of Neoliberalism? What is Left of the Left
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Religion as Race, Recognition as Democracy: Lemba “Black Jews” in South Africa
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The Race toward Caraqueño Citizenship: Negotiating Race, Class, and Participatory Democracy
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The Racialization of Islam in American Law