On November 15th, Prof. Paul Christopher Johnson (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) visited IU to speak about “White People Doing Black Religion.” This talk, which attracted a diverse audience of undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty, examined how whites have often sought to “find themselves” in historically Black religions above all through the genre and mood of the abject, as that which is at once cast out, desired, and recognized as foundational to their being.
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