{"id":5,"date":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/template-faculty01\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2023-10-19T21:37:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T01:37:13","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/danielle-boaz\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/danielle-boaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/761\/2012\/10\/E51.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/danielle-boaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/761\/2012\/10\/E51-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"E51\" width=\"241\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/danielle-boaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/761\/2012\/10\/E51-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/danielle-boaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/761\/2012\/10\/E51-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/danielle-boaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/761\/2012\/10\/E51-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Bar Admissions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Florida State Bar (2009)<\/li>\n<li>North Carolina State Bar (2017)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D. in African diaspora, Caribbean and African History, University of Miami<\/li>\n<li>J.D. with a concentration in International Law, University of Toledo<\/li>\n<li>LL.M. in Intercultural Human Rights, St. Thomas University School of Law<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Books<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur <\/em>(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023).<\/li>\n<li><em>Banning Black Gods: Law and Religions of the African Diaspora <\/em>(University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, Africana Religions Book Series, 2021).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Peer Reviewed Journal Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Danielle Boaz. &#8220;African Diaspora Religions.&#8221; <em>Religious Minorities Online<\/em>. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/rmo.20695329\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/rmo.20695329<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Danielle Boaz, \u201cMoral, Environmental, and Physical Contamination: Africana Religions and Public Health before and during the Covid-19 Pandemic,\u201d <em>International Journal for Religious Freedom<\/em> 16, no. 1 (2023): 57-74.<\/li>\n<li>Danielle Boaz, \u201cExoticizing Terrorism: Religious Bias and the Unchecked Threat of Evangelical Extremism in Brazil,\u201d <em>Journal of Religion &amp; Society<\/em> 23 (2021): 1-20.<\/li>\n<li>Danielle Boaz, \u201cRacial vs. Religious Discrimination: Black Hair in Public Service Jobs,\u201d <em>Africana Studies Review<\/em> 7 (2021): 138-156.<\/li>\n<li>Danielle Boaz, \u201cBetween \u2018Essential Services\u2019 and Culpable Homicide: State Responses to Religious Organizations and the Spread of the Novel Coronavirus in 2020,\u201d <em>Journal of Law, Religion, and State<\/em> 8, no. 2-3 (2020): 129\u2013151.<\/li>\n<li>Danielle Boaz, \u201c\u2018Spiritual Warfare\u2019 or \u2018Crimes against Humanity\u2019?: Evangelized Drug Traffickers and Violence against Afro-Brazilian Religions in Rio de Janeiro,\u201d <em>Religions: Special Issue on Religion and Violence<\/em> <em>11<\/em>, no. 12 (2020): 640-657.<\/li>\n<li>Danielle Boaz, \u201cThe \u2018Horrors of Imputed Witchcraft,\u2019 the \u2018Cruelties of Paganism,\u2019 and the Colonial Project in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, 1830s-1870s,\u201d <em>South African Historical Journal <\/em>72, no. 2 (2020): 1-22<\/li>\n<li>Danielle Boaz, \u201cIndian and Immigrant Religious Freedom: the lesser-known impact of Obeah Laws in the 21st Century Caribbean,\u201d Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics: Special Issue on Exploring Contradictions in Faith in the Caribbean Context 58, no. 3 (2020): 320-343, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14662043.2020.1773114\">https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14662043.2020.1773114<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"TextRun SCXW129404290 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW129404290 BCX0\">Danielle Boaz, \u201cThe \u2018Abhorrent\u2019 Practice of Animal Sacrifice and Religious Discrimination in the Global South,\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW129404290 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW129404290 BCX0\">Religions: Special Issue on Religious Freedom in the Global South<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW129404290 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW129404290 BCX0\">\u00a010, no<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW129404290 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW129404290 BCX0\">.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW129404290 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW129404290 BCX0\">\u00a03 (2019): 1-20.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2077-1444\/10\/3\/160\">https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2077-1444\/10\/3\/160<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW129404290 BCX0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Danielle Boaz, \u201cFraud, Vagrancy and the \u2018Pretended\u2019 Exercise of Supernatural Powers in England, South Africa and Jamaica,\u201d <em>Law &amp; History<\/em> 5, no.1 (2018): 54-84.<\/li>\n<li>Danielle Boaz, \u201cThe Voodoo Cult of Detroit: Race, Human Sacrifice, and the Nation of Islam from\u00a0the 1930s to the 1970s,\u201d <em>The Journal of Interreligious Studies<\/em> 23 (2018): 17-30.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/irstudies.org\/journal\/the-voodoo-cult-of-detroit-race-human-sacrifice-and-the-nation-of-islam-from-the-1930s-to-the-1970s-by-danielle-n-boaz\/\">http:\/\/irstudies.org\/journal\/the-voodoo-cult-of-detroit-race-human-sacrifice-and-the-nation-of-islam-from-the-1930s-to-the-1970s-by-danielle-n-boaz\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Danielle Boaz, \u201cObeah, Vagrancy, and the Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Analyzing the\u00a0Proscription of \u2018Pretending to Possess Supernatural Powers\u2019 in the Anglophone Caribbean,\u201d <em>Journal\u00a0of Law and Religion<\/em> 32, no. 3 (2017): 423\u2013448.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/journal-of-law-and-religion\/issue\/E9B9B4A389B5EDADE2FAB152710C398E\">https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/journal-of-law-and-religion\/issue\/E9B9B4A389B5EDADE2FAB152710C398E<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tracey Benson and Danielle Boaz, \u201cLeadership Amidst Racial Trauma and Unrest: UNC Charlotte\u2019s Response to the Shooting of Keith Scott,\u201d <em>Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership<\/em> (2017): 1- 14.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/1555458917741919\">https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/1555458917741919<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Danielle Boaz, \u201cIntroducing Religious Reparations: Repairing the Perceptions of African Religions through Expansions in Education,\u201d <em>Journal of Law and Religion<\/em> 26 (2010): 213-248.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Book Chapters<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Danielle Boaz, \u201cPractices \u2018Odious among the Northern and Western Nations of Europe\u2019: Whiteness\u00a0and Religious Freedom in the United States,\u201d in <em>Relating Worlds of Racism: Dehumanization,\u00a0Belonging and the Normativity of Whiteness<\/em>, ed. Karen Farquharson, Elisa White, Kathryn Pillay, and Philomena Essed (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 39-62.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/content\/pdf\/10.1007%2F978-3-319-78990-3.pdf\">https:\/\/link.springer.com\/content\/pdf\/10.1007%2F978-3-319-78990-3.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Danielle Boaz, \u201cModern Legal Issues in the Practice of African Diaspora Religions,\u201d in <em>Contemporary Perspectives on Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora<\/em>, ed. Ibigbolade Aderibigde and Carolyn Jones Medine (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), 217-234. <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1057%2F9781137498052_17\">https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1057%2F9781137498052_17<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Danielle Boaz, \u201c\u2018Instruments of Obeah\u2019: The Significance of Ritual Objects in the Jamaican Legal System, 1760-Present,\u201d in <em>Materialities, Meanings and Modernities of Rituals in the Black Atlantic,<\/em> eds., Akinwumi Ogundiran and Paula Saunders (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Law Review\/Law Journal Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Danielle Boaz, \u201cDividing Stereotype and Religion: The Legal Implications of the Ambiguous References to \u2018Voodoo\u2019 in U.S. Court Proceedings,\u201d <em>The Scholar: <\/em><em>St. Mary&#8217;s Law Review on Race &amp; Social Justice<\/em> 14(2) (2011): 251-299<\/li>\n<li>Danielle Boaz, \u201cExamining Creole Languages in the Context of International Language Rights<em>,<\/em>\u201d<em> Human Rights and Globalization Law Review <\/em>2 (2008): 45-71.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Danielle Boaz, \u201cReligious Reparations from the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Creating Demons, Cults, and Zombies to Justify Black Enslavement,\u201d <em>St. Thomas Law Review<\/em> 20 (2008): 604-621.<\/li>\n<li>Danielle Boaz, \u201cEquality does not mean Conformity: Reevaluating the use of Segregated Schools to Create a Culturally Appropriate Education for African American Children<em>,<\/em>\u201d<em> Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal <\/em>7 (2007): 1-49.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Danielle Boaz, \u201cTen Facts about the Racist History of \u201cVoodoo\u201d American Anthropological Association, August 9, 2023, <a style=\"font-size: revert\" href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropology-news.org\/articles\/ten-facts-about-the-racist-history-of-voodoo\/\">https:\/\/www.anthropology-news.org\/articles\/ten-facts-about-the-racist-history-of-voodoo\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Danielle Boaz, \u201cFrom Christchurch to Emanuel AME, We Must Recognize the Patterns of White Supremacy,\u201d <em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Religion News Service<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">, March 20, 2023, <\/span><a style=\"font-size: revert\" href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2023\/03\/20\/from-christchurch-to-emanuel-ame-we-must-recognize-the-patterns-of-white-supremacy\/\">https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2023\/03\/20\/from-christchurch-to-emanuel-ame-we-must-recognize-the-patterns-of-white-supremacy\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Danielle Boaz, \u201cAcaraj\u00e9, Religious Attire, and Conflict in Brazil,\u201d <em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law and Religion<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">, Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University, December 12, 2022, <\/span><a style=\"font-size: revert\" href=\"https:\/\/canopyforum.org\/2022\/12\/12\/acaraje-religious-attire-and-conflict-in-brazil\/\">https:\/\/canopyforum.org\/2022\/12\/12\/acaraje-religious-attire-and-conflict-in-brazil\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Danielle Boaz, \u201cSurveys Suggest that Public Opinion on Race Is at Odds with Anti-Critical Race Theory Laws,\u201d Public Religion Research Institute, November 4, 2022, <a style=\"font-size: revert\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prri.org\/spotlight\/surveys-suggest-that-public-opinion-on-race-is-at-odds-with-anti-critical-race-theory-laws\/\">https:\/\/www.prri.org\/spotlight\/surveys-suggest-that-public-opinion-on-race-is-at-odds-with-anti-critical-race-theory-laws\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Danielle Boaz, \u201cProud Boys and Afro-Cuban Religion,\u201d <em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Uncivil Religion: January 6, 2021<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">, Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama &amp; The Smithsonian&#8217;s National Museum of American History, January 6, 2022, <\/span><a style=\"font-size: revert\" href=\"http:\/\/uncivilreligion.org\/home\/proud-boys-and-afro-cuban-religion\">http:\/\/uncivilreligion.org\/home\/proud-boys-and-afro-cuban-religion<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Danielle Boaz, \u201cReligious Racism: An Overlooked Form of Anti-Black Prejudice,\u201d <em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law and Religion<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">, Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University, March 5, 2020, <\/span><a style=\"font-size: revert\" href=\"https:\/\/canopyforum.org\/2020\/03\/05\/religious-racism-an-overlooked-form-of-anti-black-prejudice-by-danielle-boaz\/\">https:\/\/canopyforum.org\/2020\/03\/05\/religious-racism-an-overlooked-form-of-anti-black-prejudice-by-danielle-boaz\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Danielle Boaz, \u201cAfrican Religions in U.S. Courts,\u201d <em style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">History Process Blog<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">, Organization of American Historians, August 8, 2017, <\/span><a style=\"font-size: revert\" href=\"http:\/\/www.processhistory.org\/boaz-african-religions-us-courts\/\">http:\/\/www.processhistory.org\/boaz-african-religions-us-courts\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In 2019, Dr. Boaz founded the International Commission to Combat Religious Racism (ICCRR). In November 2019, the ICCRR released a report and two digital maps tracking &#8220;religious racism&#8221; in Brazil (intolerance against Afro-Brazilian religions). Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiousracism.org\/brazil\">www.religiousracism.org\/brazil<\/a> to learn more.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReligiousRacism\">\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReligiousRacism\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-87\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/danielle-boaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/761\/2019\/03\/twitter-icon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"57\" height=\"57\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/danielle-boaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/761\/2019\/03\/twitter-icon.jpg 240w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/danielle-boaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/761\/2019\/03\/twitter-icon-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 57px) 100vw, 57px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/africanareligiousfreedom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-92\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/danielle-boaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/761\/2019\/03\/facebook-icon-3-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"58\" height=\"58\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/danielle-boaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/761\/2019\/03\/facebook-icon-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/danielle-boaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/761\/2019\/03\/facebook-icon-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/danielle-boaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/761\/2019\/03\/facebook-icon-3.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 58px) 100vw, 58px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bar Admissions Florida State Bar (2009) North Carolina State Bar (2017) Education Ph.D. in African diaspora, Caribbean and African History, University of Miami J.D. with a concentration in International Law, University of Toledo LL.M. in Intercultural Human Rights, St. Thomas University School of Law Publications Books Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur (Oxford: Oxford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/danielle-boaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/danielle-boaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/danielle-boaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/danielle-boaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/danielle-boaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/danielle-boaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/danielle-boaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/danielle-boaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}