Israel in Egypt

2021 ◽  
pp. 221-269
Author(s):  
Naomi Graber
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Racial Equality ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Multicultural Community ◽  
Jewish Heritage ◽  
Street Scene ◽  
Musical Styles

Weill’s evolving relationship with his Jewish heritage is apparent in several of his works. Although the pageant The Eternal Road (1937) premiered in the United States, it was conceived with European audiences in mind. Thus, Weill’s score draws on both German and Jewish musical styles and forms in order to prove that—despite Nazi declarations—the two identities were not in conflict. He wrote his first Jewish characters for the mainstream Broadway stage in Street Scene (1947), which explores the place of Jews within a multicultural community. Lost in the Stars (1949) represents the culmination of Weill’s lifelong passion for racial equality, and hearkens back to some aspects of The Eternal Road, aligning it with emergent conceptions and agendas a “Judeo-Christian” community.

Epilogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 203-210
Author(s):  
Jenna Supp-Montgomerie
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Electric Pulse ◽  
Public Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Free Communication ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The telegraph wove its way across the ocean at a time when religion’s role in public life was commonplace. Since then, networks have become more vital to everyday life in easily perceptible ways while religion is considered a less overt part of so-called secular public culture in the United States. The epilogue proposes that the relationship of telegraphic networks to the networks that shape our world today is not causal or continuous but one of resonance in which some elements are amplified and some are damped. The protestant dreams for the telegraph in the nineteenth century—particularly the promise of global unity, the celebration of unprecedented speed and ubiquity, and the fantasy of friction-free communication—reverberate in dreams for the internet and social media today. In cries that the internet makes us all neighbors reverberates the electric pulse of the celebrations of the 1858 cable’s capacity to unite the world in Christian community. And yet, it is not a straight shot from then to now. Some elements have faded, particularly overt religious motifs in imaginaries of technology. The original power of public protestantism in the first network imaginaries continues to resonate today in the primacy of connection.

Redeeming Leadership

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Liu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
The United States ◽  
Racial Equality ◽  
White Supremacist

We are living in an inhospitable world. Countries like the United States, United Kingdom and Australia are hardening their borders while organisations and societies are mounting a backlash against even the most modest advancements towards gender and racial equality. Leadership has served as a vehicle through which domination and oppression are normalised and romanticised. Despite its troubled history, leadership continues to enjoy a sacred status in our cultures and is often upheld as the solution for inclusion. Redeeming Leadership aims to identify and challenge the violences of leadership by confronting the hegemony of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist and patriarchal ideologies within leadership theorising and practice. In doing so, the book draws on the complex and distinct traditions of anti-racist feminisms in order to offer redemptive possibilities for ‘leadership’ that may be exercised from the values of justice, solidarity and love.

THE INTELLECTUAL MIGRATION AND THE “OTHER WEIMAR”

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 597-606
Author(s):  
NOAH B. STROTE
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Weimar Germany ◽  
Jewish Heritage ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of

These two books bring fresh eyes and much-needed energy to the study of the intellectual migration from Weimar Germany to the United States. Research on the scholars, writers, and artists forced to flee Europe because of their Jewish heritage or left-wing politics was once a cottage industry, but interest in this topic has waned in recent years. During the height of fascination with the émigrés, bookstores brimmed with panoramic works such as H. Stuart Hughes's The Sea Change: The Migration of Social Thought, 1930–1965 (1975), Lewis Coser's Refugee Scholars in America: Their Impact and Their Experiences (1984), and Martin Jay's Permanent Exiles: Essays on the Intellectual Migration from Germany to America (1985). Now, while historians still write monographs about émigré intellectuals, their focus is often narrowed to biographies of individual thinkers. Refreshingly, with Emily Levine's and Udi Greenberg's new publications we are asked to step back and recapture a broader view of their legacy. The displacement of a significant part of Germany's renowned intelligentsia to the US in the mid-twentieth century remains one of the major events in the intellectual history of both countries.

scholarly journals Systemic Considerations in Child Development and the Pursuit of Racial Equality in the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 180-186
Author(s):  
Sylvia P. Perry ◽  
Allison L. Skinner-Dorkenoo ◽  
James E. Wages ◽  
Jamie L. Abaied
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Child Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Racial Equality

scholarly journals Systemic Considerations in Child Development and the Pursuit of Racial Equality in the United States

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Perry ◽  
Allison Louise Skinner-Dorkenoo ◽  
James Wages ◽  
Jamie L Abaied
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Child Development ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
The United States ◽  
Racial Equality ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
Racial Inequalities ◽  
Family Level ◽  
Psychological Inquiry ◽  
The Impact

In this commentary on Lewis’ (2021) article in Psychological Inquiry, we expand on ways that both systemic and interpersonal contexts contribute to and uphold racial inequalities, with a particular focus on research on child development and socialization. We also discuss the potential roadblocks that may undermine the effectiveness of Lewis’ (2021) recommended strategy of relying on experts as a driving force for change. We conclude by proposing additional strategies for pursuing racial equality that may increase the impact of experts, such as starting anti-racist socialization early in development, family-level interventions, and teaching people about racial injustices and their connections to systemic racism.

The Food Crisis and the Church

Worldview ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-38
Author(s):  
J. Bryan Hehir
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Food Crisis ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Special Responsibility ◽  
The Church ◽  
Global Food ◽  
Unique Relationship ◽  
Global Food Crisis

My comments are based on the assumption that there is a global food crisis and that it will be with us for some time. In discussing it here my scope is quite limited. I wish to focus on the unique relationship which the United States has to the global problem and the consequent special responsibility which the Christian community in the United States has for the problem.The presentation will involve three steps: first, an analysis of the factual dimensions of the food crisis and the basic moral issues it poses; second, a description of why and how the United States bears a unique responsibility for the food question; third, a proposal regarding the potential of the Church in the United States to address the question of global and domestic hunger.

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