Are Race and Religion on the 2024 US Election Ballot?
| Dates: | 3 October 2024 |
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| Times: | 13:00 - 14:30 |
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| What is it: | Talk |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| How much: | Free |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Current University students, General public |
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Join us for a lunchtime discussion of race and religion in the 2024 US election campaign. Keith Magee, renowned intellectual, theologian and scholar will be in discussion with writer and academic Gary Younge. Feel free to bring your lunch and hot drinks will be available.
On the campaign trail, race and religion are once more being weaponised before our eyes for electoral gain. Trump is seeking to win over the very Black and Brown voters for whom his MAGA movement has shown nothing but contempt through its peddling of racist tropes and demonising of the Other. Meanwhile, an ultra-conservative Supreme Court is trampling over minority rights in the name of religion.
Is this how we strive to “form a more perfect union?” The United States is a nation that is rich in resources, but poor in morality. As a result, inequalities that should have been eradicated long ago continue to fester and high levels of deprivation exacerbate polarisation. In these fraught times, how can we come together to build a United States in which true justice is accessible to all, whatever our race, religion, or political beliefs?
Keith Magee is author of Prophetic Justice: Race, Religion, and Politics. In this talk, hosted by Gary Younge, he will discuss the impact of race and religion on our politics.
The discussion will be followed by a book signing.
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Room 3.2
Roscoe Building
Manchester
