The intersection of these two things makes for a potent stew of race and religion in America right now,' she says.īut amid this explosion, Americans like Associate Professor Butler maintain the words and ideas on which the country was founded are not only relevant, but instructive.Īnd she points to the musical Hamilton – which took Broadway by storm and recently opened in Sydney – as a way these words and ideas have become accessible in an entirely new way. ' a prevalence of police shootings of African-Americans and secondly, the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol.

'I see an explosion taking place ,' Anthea Butler, associate professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, tells RN's Soul Search. The 'young, scrappy and hungry' nation depicted in the stage show contrasts with the reality of a country battling division and violence.

The United States of America circa 2021 may seem like a far cry from the lofty ideals sung about in the hit musical Hamilton.

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