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.

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."

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