Images of Christ in Black Politics

Speaker: Melissa Harris-Lacewell, an associate professor of politics and African American studies at Princeton University

Location: Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

Date: Apr 30, 2008

Melissa Harris-Lacewell is an associate professor of politics and African American studies at Princeton. She received her B.A. in English from Wake Forest University, her Ph.D. in political science from Duke University and an honorary doctorate from Meadville Lombard Theological School. She is also a student at Union Theological Seminary in New York.

Harris-Lacewell is author of "Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought" (Princeton 2004). This text demonstrates how African Americans develop political ideas through ordinary conversations in places like barbershops, churches, and popular culture. The work was awarded the 2005 W.E.B. DuBois book award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. It is also the winner of the 2005 Best Book Award from the Race and Ethnic Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.

Her academic research has been published in scholarly journals and edited volumes and her interests include the study of African American political thought, black religious ideas and practice, and social and clinical psychology.

Harris-Lacewell is at work on a new book "For Colored Girls Who've Considered Politics When Being Strong Wasn't Enough." It is an examination of the connections between shame, sadness, and strength in African American women's politics.

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[larthur175]

blackside...yes i too wish i could marry her! prof. harris-lacewell is just one of the best thinkers out today. her analysis on politics is always, "tight". we as a nation need to see more of her on news programs as we all struggle with issues of race, class, and gender.

[ceelove30]

fine!

[ScreamingHeadAffairs]

She was better here than she is on MSNBC.

[lavell0830]

Anyone wants to know more fine, dont bring the urguements and debates thank you.

[lavell0830]

Africans is not even black, our people was lied to, believing that we are african americans, we are hebrew black isrealite jews according to the king james bible, not africans, that was a brain wash for our people, she dont know shit, and she needs to shut the hell up.

[lavell0830]

In the bible revelations:1:14-15 describes christ is black hebrews:7:14 saids christ was the tri e of judah, saids he was a black man she needs to shut her ass up.

[lavell0830]

Brain wash stupid woman, christ is black.

[kashaherum]

This is an ignorant religious jesus freak

[shieldsff]

yes, I admire Prof lacewell also but a correction is needed on a point she makes regarding the [black] Christian church's theology of the person of Jesus. As traditional Christians, it is NOT the belief that Jesus 'becomes' the Christ as the result of His resurrection.That is a gnostic belief & teaching which holds, in part He was only resurrected in spirit form ."Christ" is the english translation for the greek (Kurios) word which means Lord. the church believes he was ALWAYS Christ.

[LukeWhitaker]

@zephranna01 - thank you 7 months later

[LukeWhitaker]

i wud fuck her