Melissa Harris-Lacewell giving the 2009 Ware Lecture
Ware Lecture, featuring Melissa Harris-Lacewell
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“Faith and Reason” (PDF, 10 pages)
Faith and Reason: Race, Justice, and American Political Life
Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies at Princeton University, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, this year's Ware Lecturer, challenged us to pause in the moment of American racial transformation and ask about how faith and reason can guide our politics toward more just ends. We Americans do use religious and rational justifications for democratic processes, policy directions, and political goals. In fact, in many ways the American state is the God figure in our nation's civic religion. But the realities of black life in America have historically served to challenge the American project in both moral and secular realms.
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Last updated on Thursday, July 9, 2009.
