The Institute for Signifying Scriptures is launching a monthly, online seminar. The theme for this Fall 2025 is Memory and we'll be reading Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo." The meetings will take place on the first Friday of each month at 10am Pacific. ISS asks that you register at … Continue reading Scriptures Everywhere: Barracoon
I'm on the way home from the meeting of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures. My brain is on rapid -fire mode with all sorts of ideas and questions. In the midst of it all, I just learned that a podcast episode I was on just dropped. Jacqueline Hidalgo, Vincent Wimbush, and I were on Nothing … Continue reading Playing With Texts: Pedagogies of Scriptures
On April 11-13, 2024, the Institute for Signifying Scriptures will be hosting a special annual meeting to commemorate two momentous occasions: The 20th Anniversary of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures and the 25th Anniversary of the African Americans and the Bible Project. Over the next few weeks, I'm going to be highlighting some media to … Continue reading 20 Years On… Theorizing Scripture: New Critical Orientations to a Cultural Phenomenon
It wasn't a quest to find Black people within the canon or a liberative hermeneutic for Black people. African Americans and the Bible laid out an agenda for critically studying, as the accompanying anthology's subtitle states, "sacred texts and social textures."
The Institute for Signifying Scriptures is celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the ISS and the 25th Anniversary of the African Americans and the Bible Project. To help you get ready, I'm sharing some media reflections by Jacqueline Hidalgo and Lalruatkima to get ready.
