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LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant

LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Williams College where she teaches a variety of courses on religion and popular culture, ethnographic methods, African American religious experience, and womanist/black feminist thought. In addition to her current book project Pushing Weight, she is the author of Talking to the Dead: Religion, Music and Lived Memory among Gullah/Geechee Women (Duke University Press, 2014) and co-author of Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry’s Productions with Tamura A. Lomax and Carol B. Duncan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

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Religion Dispatches
What inspired you to write Talking to the Dead? I vividly recall the experiences that sparked the book. When I was an undergraduate, I was a history major and had read some books about South Carolina…
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Religion Dispatches
Barack Obama tried to run a color-blind campaign, and he won. But don’t believe the hype: an Obama victory doesn’t mean an end to racism in our culture, or that we should blithely forget the history of racial injustice.
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