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Workshop by Danielle Boaz, an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina, cosponsored by the USC School of Religion, on Wednesday, February 12 from 12-1 pm (lunch served at 11:40), in Room 118/120 of the Law School.

Boaz’s paper, “The Roots of Religious Racism: The Prohibition of ‘Witchcraft,’ ‘Obeah,’ and Vagrancy in Britain’s Atlantic Empire, 1830s-1960s,” is part of her broader book project on the boundaries of “legitimate” spiritual practices in the Anglophone Atlantic world from the 1850s to the 1950s.  This research integrates British colonial proscriptions of African diaspora religions in the Caribbean and Africa into more well-established studies of the legal prohibition of astrology, spiritualism and “pretended” witchcraft in the United States and Britain during this period.

Boaz’s book is part of a broader set of research interests.  She is a scholar of religion, law, history, and Africana studies who examines the structural racism ingrained in domestic and international mechanisms protecting civil, political, social and cultural rights.  Her work focuses on the legal proscription of African cultural practices in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the modern day impact of those laws on public perceptions of these practices.

Please RSVP to clhcserv@law.usc.edu if you are planning to attend the workshop.

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