Dr. Sikivu Hutchinson is masterful at presenting the facts, precept upon precept, of secular social justice, white supremacy, patriarchy, heterosexism, capitalism, economic injustice, and global imperialism.
Dr. Hutchinson expertly dissects the dismantli... ...more
Black people are not a monolith. We are not the same in the way we live, the way we love or the way we worship. In fact, quiet as it’s kept; many of us don’t worship at all. Increasingly, African Americans, along with other people of color, are turning away from religious dogma and the oppression... ...more
Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels by Sikivu Hutchinson
“Godless Americana" is an eye-opening passionate critique of the current socioeconomic struggle faced by people of color. It also exposes the role white Christian nationalism has in vilifying urban communities. It's a quest for how... ...more
Friends, countryfolk, students of secularism, direct your attention this way, please. Grab your lined notebooks and pens and take a seat facing the board. It is time for the lessons you didn't get in high school, or for that matter in college. Sikivu Hutchinson's new book, Godless Americana, will... ...more
In this follow-up to her excellent book Moral Combat, Sikivu Hutchinson leaves no political stone unturned and no sacred cow unscathed. From the white nationalist shenanigans of the Religious Right to the delusion of American exceptionalism and neo-liberal assaults on public education, Hutchinson... ...more
Sikivu's Americana will have you musing at the space contemporary cultural characters like Honey Boo Boo occupy and in the next breathe, have you ponder the true intentions and operative strategies of political heavy weights such as Newt Gingrich.
Godless Americana is a thoughtful and beautifully... ...more
Sikivu Hutchinson's latest critical assault on unreason, intolerance, ignorance, and injustice in America is just as viscerally hard-hitting and intellectually satisfying as her 2011 effort, "Moral Combat".
"Godless Americana" picks up where "Moral Combat" leaves off, shifting the analytic focus... ...more
Provides a much needed analysis about atheism, race, gender, and class inequality. Hutchinson: "Contrary to what some atheists believe, the need for religion will not simply evaporate when the masses get a steady diet of reason, science, and logic....Unless structural inequality is radically redr... ...more
Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels is a pointed and necessary resource for both public and academic discourses to better understand the experience of secular people of color forging visibility in the battle of social justice. Secular activists of color are rendered invisible and improba... ...more
It has been said the most segregated part of American life is Sunday Services at Church. The same can be said strangely enough about Secularism. Secularism based on enlightenment universality and humanism has a hard time reaching humans of color. Atheist events look a lot like the convening of M... ...more