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the cultural production of evil

some notes on aunt jemima and the imagination.

By Emilie M. Townes

This piece is available as a pdf. You may request a copy of the print issue in which it appeared (volume 34, number 1, Winter 2006) by writing to bulletin@hds.harvard.edu.

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Emilie M. Townes is the first Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and Theology at Yale Divinity School. She is currently working on her fourth book, WomanistEthicsandtheCulturalProductionofEvil.

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