Sunday Meeting - How Black Bodies Challenge Humanist Ethics
04/15/2012 - 11:15am
Ceremonial Hall
Anthony Pinn
Dr. Anne Klaeysen Presides
The murder of Trayvon Martin has raised a variety of issues related to the ways in which African-Americans are understood within the United States.
While this tragic event has a particular meaning within our current historical moment, it also points to troubling ideologies and framings of collective life in the United States tied to the very formation of the nation. Humanists might have unique contributions to make to this ongoing conversation concerning black bodies, but this first requires humanists to interrogate their own assumptions concerning human nature.
Anthony Pinn, Ph.D. (Harvard University) is the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University. He is also Director of Research for the Institute for Humanist Studies, and author/editor of 26 books, including The End of God-Talk: An African-American Humanist Theology (Oxford, 2012).
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