Dr. Danielle N. Boaz
Dr. Danielle N. Boaz University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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.