Episode 6: Histories of Demonization

<p>This week's episode centers on the demonic as a conceptual and cultural tool for imposing or resisting power structures. Demonization has a complicated history in Christianity: it justifies the suppression of many aspects of pre-Christian Roman civilization, provides a key rationale for early-modern European colonization, but also enables a contemporary Womanist critique of white supremacy. Just in time for the US's electoral rituals of inclusion and exclusion from the national community, we delve into the politics of demonization.</p><p><br></p><p>Many thanks to Ernest J. Mitchell for the library-access-assist with Delores S. Williams' article "The Color of Feminism: Or, Speaking the Black Woman's Tongue."</p><p><br></p><p>Email us with questions and comments at 7h10hpod@gmail.com</p>