Dr. Danielle N. Boaz

Danielle N. Boaz is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Dr. Boaz is the author of Banning Black Gods: Law and Religions of the African Diaspora and more than twenty articles about discrimination against African and African diaspora religions. Her website, www.religiousracism.org/brazil, tracks cases of intolerance against Afro-Brazilian religions. Dr. Boaz is also Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Africana Religions and the lead PI on a project titled “Race, Justice and Africana Religions in the United States and the African Diaspora,” funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.