EP 300: Race, Caste, and Indian Missionary Priests in Rural America w/Dr. Sonja Thomas

The Classical Ideas Podcast

Sonja Thomas is an associate professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Colby College, where she teaches courses on South Asian feminisms, transnational feminisms, gender and human rights, feminist theory, and postcolonial and native feminisms. Sonja is associate editor for South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, and the author of Privileged Minorities: Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India. She has written articles on tap history and blackface abroad (specifically in Asia). She is currently researching and writing her second book on Catholic missionary priests from India serving in rural Montana and North Dakota. The project is titled Indians and Cowboys: Race, Caste, and Indian Missionary Priests in Rural America. She is also conducting research on the 1961 Babe Ruth World Series hosted in her hometown, Glendive, Montana.

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Read Wondering About the Appearance of the Indian Flag at the Capitol Riots? by Dr. Sonja Thomas

Check out Sonja Thomas' book: https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295743844/privileged-minorities/