{"id":1250,"date":"2013-08-18T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/08\/godless-americana-race-and-religious-rebels.html"},"modified":"2013-08-18T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T19:59:00","slug":"godless-americana-race-and-religious-rebels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/08\/godless-americana-race-and-religious-rebels.html","title":{"rendered":"Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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Sikivu Hutchinson is an author and activist who promotes a progressive\u2014and aggressive\u2014conception of humanism that is at once feminist, anti-racist, anti-homophobic, anti-classist, and anti-imperialist. She has no patience for nontheists who focus primarily on church\/state separation, evolution, and other issues that, in her view, are being promoted particularly by white males within the secular movement. In response, Hutchinson asserts that humanism will only appeal to the masses of \u201cpeople of color,\u201d women, LGBT individuals, and other historically oppressed groups if it addresses structural and systemic causes of poverty and oppression.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>

<\/span><\/span>Godless Americana is an impressively researched book that deals with a number of subjects that most nontheists rarely, if ever, discuss at their gatherings or in their literature. For instance, the book makes the case that many white humanists tend to blindly, even proudly, embrace scientism. While noting the importance of science, Hutchinson calls attention to the fact that racism exists in science and in medicine. Moreover, she challenges the notion that black girls aren\u2019t interested in science due to hyper-religiosity. Rather, she states that the contributions of scientists of color are simply not touted in textbooks and lesson plans.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>

<\/span><\/span>In her hometown of Los Angeles, Hutchinson acknowledges the lack of Advanced Placement (AP) courses for black and Latino high school students. However, students taking these courses are much more likely to earn degrees in hard sciences and engineering. Hutchinson writes:\u00a0<\/span><\/span>

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In 1999, students from the Inglewood Unified School District in Los Angeles successfully sued to get more AP courses at their schools. The suit charged that black and Latino students were systematically denied access to college preparation courses that were standard fare at white schools in Los Angeles County.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


<\/span><\/span>In a related story from Bartow, Florida, sixteen-year-old student Kiera Wilmot mixed together toilet bowl cleaner and aluminum foil in a science experiment at her school earlier this year. As a result, there was an explosion. The Bartow Police Department, the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office, and Bartow High School pressed two felony charges against her. Feminists and civil rights activists protested vehemently, claiming it was just another example of the cradle-to-prison pipeline that exists\u00a0 for African Americans and society\u2019s failure to encourage black girls to pursue science.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>

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Sikivu Hutchinson is an author and activist who promotes a progressive\u2014and aggressive\u2014conception of humanism that is at once feminist, anti-racist, anti-homophobic, anti-classist, and anti-imperialist. She has no patience for nontheists who focus primarily on church\/state separation, evolution, and other issues that, in her view, are being promoted particularly by white males within the secular movement. 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