Scandinavian studies professor debunks idea of racial purity that makes racist extremists identify with Viking culture. The struggle over African American communities' treatment by the penal system is consequently a moral struggle, or a conflict primarily geared around the formulation and application of moral constructs. White supremacists are misappropriating Norse mythology, says expert.
institutions and people's institutional affiliations. THE VERY ESSENCE of the Jewish state is racial-nationalism: the state exists to serve the interests of that biological entity known as the Jewish people and no other. The monograph builds on Vesely-Flad's earlier work on the theological and social implications of contemporary racial justice movements and analyzes the varying ways in which Black Lives Matter activists function in a role somewhat similar to that of religious authorities in that they are actively dismantling and reforming the multiple symbolic constructs that provide meaning and purpose to U.S. Racial Purity: Necessary for Jews, Forbidden for Whites. And, in truth, even specieshood is not the end of change and evolution. In Racial Purity and Dangerous Bodies: Moral Pollution, Black Lives, and the Struggle for Justice, Rima Vesely-Flad explains how contemporary antipolice activists are dismantling the contemporary penal system's strategic investment in racialized pollution boundaries. Purity of race is something that if we succeed in surviving as a separate entity many races did not and will not lies in the future, not in the past.