Banning Black Gods

Boaz, Danielle N.

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“…Western media capitalizes on the "racist, nationalist, and xenophobic fears incited by [these] typification[s]" by making unsubstantiated and alarmist claims such as that Manuel Noriega and other murderous drug criminals are worshippers of Vodou (Bartkowski 1998, 568). Political accusations intentionally associate Vodou with criminality to stoke Afrophobic fears and bolster public support for national security and racial profiling, mirroring the discourses of fear, danger, and security used by the colonial and planter class to outlaw African-derived religions and maintain control over racial and religious minorities in the colonial Americas (Boaz 2021;Stewart 2005).…”

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Pursuing Racial Order and Social Progress: Violence, Afrophobia and “Religious Racism” in Brazil

Cantave

2024

Lat. Am. res. rev.

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This article explores “religious racism,” or discrimination against devotees of African-derived religions in Brazil, as a broader pattern of structural racism rooted in racialized religious alterity, Afrophobia, and the epistemic divide between religion and nonreligion. The term religious racism has been proposed by some devotees and anti-racist activists to emphasize that Afro-Brazilian religions are uniquely targeted in ways other non-Christian religions are not. Unlike religious intolerance, the term religious racism explicitly connects discrimination against Afro-Brazilian religions to colonization, color or racial hierarchy, and anti-Black prejudice. This article clarifies the ideological groundings of religious racism that encourage Neo-Pentecostal extremists to pursue “order and progress,” as the national motto suggests, through physical violence.

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Pursuing Racial Order and Social Progress: Violence, Afrophobia and “Religious Racism” in Brazil

Cantave

2024

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Banning Black Gods

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Pursuing Racial Order and Social Progress: Violence, Afrophobia and “Religious Racism” in Brazil

Pursuing Racial Order and Social Progress: Violence, Afrophobia and “Religious Racism” in Brazil

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