392 Religion and Race in Early America

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

Earlyrepublic, History, Benfranklin, Society & Culture, Warforindependence, Earlyamericanrepublic, Earlyamericanhistory, Education, Colonialamerica, Americanrevolution, Ushistory, Benjaminfranklin

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🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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What does history have to tell us about how we, as Americans, came to define people by their race; the visual ways we have grouped people together based on their skin color, facial features, hair texture, and ancestry?

As you might imagine, history has a LOT to tell us about this question! So today, we’re going to explore one aspect of the answer to this question by focusing on some of the ways religion shaped European and early American ideas about race and racial groupings.

Kathryn Gin Lum is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. She’s also the author of Heathen: Religion and Race in American History.

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0:00.0	You're listening to an airwave media podcast.
0:04.0	Ben Franklin's world is a production of Colonial Williamsburg Innovation Studios.
0:09.0	It's clear to see that English colonizers in the aftermath of King Philip's war are turning from evangelizing to
0:14.7	enslaving and exterminating. But later generations of Anglo-Americans return to evangelizing.
0:20.8	And I think it's important to see both forms of othering coexisting and to see the violence in each.
0:27.0	One aimed at the destruction of lives and the other at the destruction of
0:33.0	Ben Franklin's world.
0:39.0	Hello and welcome to episode
0:39.0	392 of Ben Franklin's world.
0:45.0	The podcast dedicated to helping you,
0:47.3	learn more about how the people and events
0:49.4	of our early American past have shaped the present day world
0:52.3	we live in. And I'm your host, Liz Kovart. History tells us who we are and how we came to be who we are as people, cultures, and nations.
1:01.0	So what does history have to tell us about how we as Americans came to define people by their
1:07.4	race, the visual ways we have grouped people together based on their skin color, facial
1:11.9	features, hair texture, and ancestry.
1:15.0	As you might imagine, history has a lot to tell us about this question.
1:20.0	So today, we're going to explore one aspect of the answer to this question by focusing on some of the ways that religion
1:27.0	shape European and early American ideas about race and racial groupings.
1:32.0	Catherine Jin Lumb is an associate professor of religious studies at Stanford University.
1:37.0	She's also the author of the book, Hehethon, Religion and Race in American History.
1:42.0	Using details from her book, Heathon,
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