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Law, Religious Racism, and Religions of the African Diaspora

The Religious Studies Project

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The Role of Police in the Civil Rights Movement

The discrimination against africana religions is very deeply connected to the history of slavery and colonization. These religions were prohibited in virtually every country or colony in the americas at some point between the eighteenth and the twentieth century. This was fact, that leaders of these religions would lead slave rebellions or would perform some kind of ritual ceremonies to protect the insurgents in slave rebellions. And so one of the things is this kind of intolerance that operates very much in the way that we see racism operate in other aspects of society.

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